Re: More adventures in game crunching...

[Mike Maginnis <maginnis@tarnover.org>]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:38:12 GMT, Lyrical Nanoha
<LyricalNanoha@dosius.net> wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Mike Maginnis wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:08:34 GMT, Lyrical Nanoha
>> <LyricalNanoha@dosius.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Mike Maginnis wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ah, got it.  These aren't actually compressed files.  Dropping the .gz
>>>> from the extension (crunch1.dsk.gz -> .crunch1.dsk) did the trick.
>>>
>>> Looks like your browser decompressed them for you.
>>>
>>> -uso.
>>
>> Interesting.  I didn't know Firefox had any kind of compression
>> handling routines.
>
>It does handle .gz, some sites can send their pages .gz-compressed to save 
>bandwidth.
>
>I also know IE (as early as version 4 on a Mac) is able to auto-decompress 
>GZ files.
>
>-uso.

Good to know.  Thanks for the info.

- Mike
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