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Linux archive filenames

Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 4:53 am
by SamuraiCrow
Filenames for XMP plugin, Hollywood Player and maybe others are named *.tar.gz but are internally normal *.zip files. They should probably be renamed accordingly.

Re: Linux archive filenames

Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:05 pm
by airsoftsoftwair
Huh? No, they aren't. The macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android distributions come as ZIP files. Amiga comes as LHA and only Linux comes as TAR.GZ (because of its capability to store Unix permissions).

Re: Linux archive filenames

Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 3:16 pm
by SamuraiCrow
That's odd. When I tried to open the files in Manjaro XFCE using its Archive Manager it complained that the files weren't really .tar.gz until I renamed them with a .zip suffix.

Re: Linux archive filenames

Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 4:07 pm
by airsoftsoftwair
Probably an issue in Archive Manager. If you use tar directly, you'll see that they're correct tar files.

Re: Linux archive filenames

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 12:52 am
by SamuraiCrow
OK then!