Re: Extracting tar files

[Chris McMahan]

I've seen Internet Explorer mislabel the default file name to
tar.tar. If you look at the status bar when hovering over the link,
you can get the actual file name (or switch to Firefox!).

This has happened to me with tar.gz and tar.bz2 files.

- Chris

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 06.01.2005 um 05:11 schrieb Kevin M Evart:
> 
> > I recently downloaded some dictionary files (moby.tar.tar and
> > others).  I find that decompression software available on WindowsXP
> > does not open these achieves.  Could you please provide me with a
> > means of extracting these types of files.
> 
> You could try to install GNU tar yourself from
> http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ -- or could think about the name
> moby.tar.tar. Why is it a .tar.tar? I have only Mac OS X so I never
> think of eXPanding things by applying a method twice -- although Mac
> OS X has inherited the apply command from BSD.
> 
> What are the results when you make the file extension single? Wasn't
> there once a rename command? Besides R or %r in dired-mode.
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>    Pete
> 
> 
> 

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