From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Jan 13 21:30:04 2000 Subject: Winzip chokes (was: Re: Trouble Downloading ) From: David Doolin To: Richard Davis cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, mmarston@paccrst.com, doolin@cs.utk.edu Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 22:29:58 -0500 In message , Richard Davis writes: >> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand >this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > >--MS_Mac_OE_3030631433_199293_MIME_Part >Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I have twice downloaded the "octave-latest_tar.tar" file from the site >specified, but WinZip won't open the file. I get an error message: "error >processing directory after 0 entries" followed by another: "invalid archive >file". Haven't done anything else to follow-up... but should I be using >some other de-archiving program? You have several options. The easiest is to rename the file that you downloaded to "foo.tar.gz" (foo is whatever the root filw name is). Then winunzip it. It may inform you about "obsolete compression format" or some such nonsense, which you may safely ignore. I am not sure you would understand the other options, and I don't have time to explain them in detail (it could take quite a bit of detail), but you may try ftp directly instead http. Warning: octave is Free Software. Among other things, this means that you Know What You Are Doing, in the unix sense of the words. Also, as you can see, at least some of us us text-based mail clients, which do not render html (They don't render mime types such as wp docs, images, or virues either). Good luck. > > >--MS_Mac_OE_3030631433_199293_MIME_Part >Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > >Trouble Downloading > > >I have twice downloaded the "octave-latest_tar.tar" file from= > the site specified, but WinZip won't open the file.  I get an error me= >ssage: "error processing directory after 0 entries" followed by an= >other: "invalid archive file".  Haven't done anything else to= > follow-up... but should I be using some other de-archiving program?
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