On Fri, Nov 24, 2017, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > However, the file mom-2.2-a.tar.gz is NOT a gzipped tar file. It is just > plain tar: > > file mom-2.2-a.tar.gz gives: > > mom-2.2-a.tar.gz: POSIX tar archive (GNU)
Interesting. I checked that my ftp client (lftp) wasn't deflating the archive and re-uploaded. I then downloaded the file via ftp, first at the command line and then using KDE Dolphin. In both cases, file(1) reported mom-2.2-a.tar.gz: gzip compressed data Next, I downloaded the file using wget(1) and KDE's Konqueror. Again, file(1) reported mom-2.2-a.tar.gz: gzip compressed data Lastly, I downloaded the file from the Opera browser, and hey, presto!, file(1) reported mom-2.2-a (1).tar.gz: POSIX tar archive (GNU) If anyone knows why this is, I'll be glad of the knowledge. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
