>>> "GM" == Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> writes:

> Eric,
> thanks very much for sharing.  it's nice that you also provide the .org
> file on arXiv -- good marketing material!  :) ah, and mention in the
> code appendix.  it's very useful to have the .org file as a model of how
> to do various things.

> i don't know if this is you, or is arXiv, but the ancillary files
> ("details" on the main page) claims to get .tar.gz (and, indeed,
> downloads as a .tar.gz file) but is, in fact, an uncompressed .tar file.

That is a arXiv thing. Let's put it this way: they don't rely on very
modern software (it took them ages to get a recent texlive version)[1]

Uwe Brauer 


Footnotes:
[1]  truth being told, a lot of mathematicians and I think physicists
     don't upgrade very frequently so it might have been a
     compatibility issue.