From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris McMahan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Extracting tar files Date: 06 Jan 2005 10:22:48 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: <000101c4f3a5$d5840910$6400a8c0@FatMan> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1105025263 12250 80.91.229.6 (6 Jan 2005 15:27:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 06 16:27:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CmZU7-0004gd-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:23:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmZfQ-0007Ni-6e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:35:16 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1105024980 5659 166.84.1.3 (6 Jan 2005 15:23:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:23:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:127707 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23175 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23175 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 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 > > > -- (. .) =ooO=(_)=Ooo======================== Chris McMahan | cmcmahan-at-one.net ====================================