Re: unpacking php tar file
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Wed, 07 Jun 2000 20:40:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: unpacking php tar file | ||
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It is not named php-4_0_0_tar.tar, your browser is too stupid to get the
name right. What are you using? IE?
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, J. Potts wrote:
> Why is the download named this:
>
> php-4_0_0_tar.tar
>
> It should be named:
>
> php-4_0_0.tar.gz
>
> gunzip doesn't like the .tar ending. The Quick Installation instructions
> at: http://uk.php.net/distributions/bigmanual.html, assumes the
> file is
> a .tar.gz. I had to rename it in order to get gunzip and tar to unpack
> the files properly.
>
> JRP
> "How many slime-trailing, sleepless, slimy, slobbering things do you know
> that will *run and hide* from your Eveready?"
> --Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson
>
>
>