saving .bz2 files
david
nux at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Aug 26 13:39:39 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 18:33 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> 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 )
Yes I do.
I've seen this extra .tar behaviour on Fedora, Suse, Mandrake, RedHat
and so on.
regards
nux
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