Joachim Schimpf wrote: > > Vincent Mousseau wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have downloaded the Windows version of Elclipse using http. > > (/eclipse/download/release/5.5_63/i386_nt/eclipse_basic.tgz) > > but when I try to open the file (using winzip v8) I get an error message > > (error reading headerafter processing 0 entries). Note that I have > > disabled the "TAR file smart CR/LF conversion" in the options. > > > > do you have any suggestions ? > > You have probably downloaded with Internet Explorer. > What seems to happen is that IE changes the file extension > from .tgz to .tar, without touching the file contents, > and this confuses WinZip sufficiently to give this > incomprehensible error message. We have now changed the mime type settings on our http server, so the problem should not occur any longer! -- Joachim Schimpf / phone: +44 20 7594 8187 IC-Parc / mailto:J.Schimpf@imperial.ac.uk Imperial College London / http://www.icparc.ic.ac.uk/eclipseReceived on Mon Apr 07 16:40:37 2003
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