saving .bz2 files

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Fri Aug 26 08:33:10 UTC 2005


On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:19:13 +0100
david <nux at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I've noticed that often when I right click and "save as" a file ending
> in .bz2, that the firefox downloader (?) adds an extra ".tar"  on the
> end. If missed, the file then won't open in Archive Manager unless I
> rename it and remove the extra .tar. I understand this bit, what I don't
> understand is why the extra .tar gets added in the first place.
> Is this a common thing ?
> 
> regards
> 
> nux

Sounds weird - I've never seen this myself. 

If you left-click the link do you get a popup asking if you want to download it or open it in file-roller? (Archive Manager, whatever )

Peter


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