[plug] HOWTO PDFs

[Jason Nicholls]

G'day All,

On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 01:46:52PM +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> At 10:03 AM 7/25/00 +0800, Steve Grasso wrote:
> >Kevin,
> >
> >On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Shackleton, Kevin wrote:
> >> I downloaded the 14 MB HOWTO tar.gz file from Linux.org, but the PDFs are
> >> all damaged, according to Acrobat 3 or 4, in Windows.  Winzip didn't mind
> >> unzipping the file though.  Is there a problem that Winzip doesn't
> recognise
> >> unzipping in Winzip rather than tar? I can't access a Linux machine until I
> >> rebuild it :-(
> 
> Yesterday I received a zip file from Intel. WinZip churned away for a long
> time and produced nothing. Rather, it created and empty file.
> 
> I then used unzip under Linux and all was OK.

I've also had problems with WinZip in the past. Unzipping a very large zip
file (ziped exe) resulted in a broken exe. Unzipping with linux produced a
working exe...

Doesn't really matter because Windows is a thing of the past.


Later,

Jason Nicholls
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