That makes some sense.  The file you're downloading is gzipped, but it's
getting saved with a ".tar" extension by your browser, so WinZip is trying
to treat it as a tape archive.  Since it's compressed it must be
decompressed prior to being interpreted as a tape archive, and WinZip is
apparently using the extension to identify the compression status.  So
WinZip is trying to treat a compressed file as an uncompressed tape archive
and is getting confused, which explains why renaming the file fixes things.
This still doesn't explain the funky file name, but there are some things we
were not meant to know.  :-)

Bob Jarvis
The Timken Company

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bill Dargel [SMTP:wDargel at shoshana.com]
> Sent:	Monday, March 08, 1999 11:28 PM
> To:	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject:	Re: Anyone making end-user programs with Squeak?
> 
> Chris Reuter wrote:
> 
> > I changed the extension from .tgz to tar.gz which (self fingers cross)
> > will fix the problem.
> 
> It works with Netscape 4.05 (in Windows) with just a bit of fudging. It's
> actually rather strange. It shows the link as being
> http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~cgreuter/tower002.tar.gz and by clicking
> on
> it it does go straight to a "save as" dialog now, but at that point the
> filename it gives is "tower002_tar.tar". Don't ask me where it gets that.
> Maybe the two dot-extensions confuses someone? (Either your server or
> Netscape). If I save with the default name or open directly with WinZip it
> will then give an "Error reading header after processing 0 entries". But,
> by
> changing the name to save as to "tower002_tar.gz" (or renaming it after
> downloading) WinZip is happy with it. Maybe it would work directly if you
> used that for the filename?
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> Bill Dargel            wdargel at shoshana.com
> Shoshana Technologies
> 100 West Joy Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105  USA
> 
>