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Re: AW: documentation archive



> >I don't believe winzip understands bzip2.
> >.tar.bz2 might work
> 
> Hey, good idea!  I've been wanting to adapt setup.exe to use bz2 files.
> This is YA reason for doing this.

One (small) problem.  Netscape assumes that .bz2 files are text, and
displays them within the browser window.  To get a download, you *must*
right-click/save-as, you can't just left-click.  Not a big deal, but it
will generate FAQs. 

--Chuck

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