Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: kernel mirrors behavior changed | Date | 23 Jan 1999 06:32:24 GMT |
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Followup to: <36A962DF.46889EE4@wa1hco.mv.com> By author: Jeff Millar <jeff@wa1hco.mv.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > The mx.kernel.org mirror and probably others will thoughtfully (??) > gunzip the file as it's downloaded, at least when downloaded with > netscape. However, when it does this under DOS/Win it adds returns that > patch can't handle. The original kernel.org doesn't gunzip the file, so > there's no text conversion problem. In addition, the ascii converted > file retains its .gz suffix...which is just plain wrong. >
Actually, this is your web browser doing it; the different behaviour is probably due to different versions of Apache. This is a misfeature in some versions of Netscape.
I'll send some mail to the mirrors list about this.
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