Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I've done a bit more digging. It turns out Firefox on Mac defaults to | using Stuffit Expander to decompress .tar.gz files, and it's all | Stuffit's fault. Both versions of tar (1.15 and 1.14) succeed in | unpacking the file. | | We'll need to include a note to that effect somewhere (on the wiki, | at least) -- but not (or at least not simply) in the Install.MacOSX | file, since that doesn't get unpacked unless the note is not needed.
So what you are saying is that the tar file of pre3 is quite ok if the proper tar binary is used for unpackingà That works for me. -- Lgb