Re: kernel mirrors behavior changed

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
23 Jan 1999 06:32:24 GMT

Followup to: <36A962DF.46889EE4@wa1hco.mv.com>
By author: Jeff Millar <jeff@wa1hco.mv.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> The mx.kernel.org mirror and probably others will thoughtfully (??)
> gunzip the file as it's downloaded, at least when downloaded with
> netscape. However, when it does this under DOS/Win it adds returns that
> patch can't handle. The original kernel.org doesn't gunzip the file, so
> there's no text conversion problem. In addition, the ascii converted
> file retains its .gz suffix...which is just plain wrong.
>

Actually, this is your web browser doing it; the different behaviour
is probably due to different versions of Apache. This is a misfeature
in some versions of Netscape.

I'll send some mail to the mirrors list about this.

-hpa

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