Re: Bittorrent Mirror - apple.cabi.net

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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: Scott Alfter wrote:
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: > In article <fuWdnZytA9eq_XrZnZ2dnUVZ_sWdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
: > Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
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: >>There appears to be a problem with the 'apple.cabi.net.tar.gz' archive
: >>(or with WinZip, which I'm using to view the contents).
: >>
: >>The total path length is exceeding some limit, causing filenames to be
: >>truncated and making them non-unique.
: >>
: >>For example, in the archived directory:
: >>
:
>>apple.cabi.net\Languages.Programming\DRIVER.SRC\Stylewriter_Driver_SRC.COD
E\stylewriter\scripts
: >>
: >>there are two files named 'dir' and three named 'sty', clearly the
: >>result of truncation.
: >
: >
: > Works for me...the archive unpacked OK on one of my Linux boxes.
: >
: > I suspect the problem is with WinZip, as the directory structure doesn't
: > look like something that should cause a problem with Windows.  WinZip's
: > tarball handling has (IMO) always left something to be desired.
: >
: > I'd recommend using GNU tar, which is available for Windows as a part of
: > Cygwin:
: >
: > http://www.cygwin.com/
: >
: > It's part of the base Cygwin install, so you shouldn't need to select
extra
: > packages to get it working.
:
: Anyone willing to .zip this archive.  I've never had any problem with
: .zips.
:
: -michael

I'm all for ZIPs as well. The downloaded .tar.gz of Asimov is 200 MB
larger than the un-archived folder. That makes no sense to me at all.

Bill Garber