Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-04 Thread Juergen Fenn
Andre Poenitz schrieb: > [I would suggest generally using 'wget' for downloads from the net. Should > be available for Windows, too.] > > Apart from that, you have plenty hints that the archive is indeed > corrupted. As all others who tried the archive did not mention problems, > so a new downl

Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 06:59:21PM +, Juergen Fenn wrote: > > Are you sure all transfers happend in binary mode? Note that some ftp > > clients start in ASCII mode as default, so archives thend to break... > > This idea has been mentioned rather often, in some personal messages too. > I have

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Mike Ressler
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: > Herbert Voss schrieb: > > > anyway, there is also a zip version > > > > http://www.perce.de/lyx/LyXTips.zip > > This worked just fine! :-) Thank you very much, Herbert! I haven't followed this thread very carefully, so pardon me if I'm restating the obvio

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Juergen Fenn
Herbert Voss schrieb: > anyway, there is also a zip version > > http://www.perce.de/lyx/LyXTips.zip This worked just fine! :-) Thank you very much, Herbert! > let me know if you want to use it more often, > than I'll update it together with the tgz version. That would be a good idea. Maybe

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Herbert Voss
only one remark: if you are able to get it with wget than try wget http://www.perce.de/lyx/LyXTips.tgz anyway, there is also a zip version http://www.perce.de/lyx/LyXTips.zip let me know if you want to use it more often, than I'll update it together with the tgz version. Herbert -- http:/

Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Juergen Fenn
Hi all, I will summarise reply to your answers. Thanks to everyone. Am 03.12.01, 09:49:50, schrieb Guenter Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Thema Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: > (Finally, remember that Herbert is not a LyX support employee. The only > reward he gets for making

Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Juergen Fenn
Hi all, I will summarise reply to your answers. Thanks to everyone. Am 03.12.01, 09:49:50, schrieb Guenter Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Thema Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: > (Finally, remember that Herbert is not a LyX support employee. The only > reward he gets for making

Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Juergen Fenn
Hi all, I will summarise reply to your answers. Thanks to everyone. Am 03.12.01, 09:49:50, schrieb Guenter Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Thema Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: > (Finally, remember that Herbert is not a LyX support employee. The only > reward he gets for making

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Mike Meredith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sunday 02 December 2001 17:55, you wrote: > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data—format violated > tar: Kindprozeß gab Status 1 zurück > tar: Fehler beim Beenden, verursacht durch vorhergehenden Fehler Sounds like something has already decompressed the file

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:04:07PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: > > > Thanks for your hint to winzip, but I do not use shareware for > > (de-)compressing data as long as there is freeware available for this > > purpose. PowerArchiver 6.10 is rather good perfor

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 05:55:58PM +, Juergen Fenn wrote: > I just would like to say that this is the first archive ever I am not > able to open. I have never had any difficulties working with archives. Are you sure all transfers happend in binary mode? Note that some ftp clients start in AS

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: >Could it be that the problem is due to the fact that I made the download >working with Windows? My box has a winmodem only. So I have no access to Maybe, or your browser. At least Netscape tends to corrupt files. Try using file LyXTips.tgz it migh

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Allan Rae
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: > Thanks for your hint to winzip, but I do not use shareware for > (de-)compressing data as long as there is freeware available for this > purpose. PowerArchiver 6.10 is rather good performing freeware. 6.11 is the last version of PowerArchiver which is fr

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 02.12.01, 19:43:15, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) zum Thema Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: > | If this is so I think you should change the compressing format to simple > | *.zip which can be decompressed with Windows software anyway. After all > | LyX is avai

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 02.12.01, 20:06:37, schrieb Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Thema Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: > > I am running SuSE Linux 7.2. Either input yields the following error > > report: > > > > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated > >

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Fenn wrote: > > I am running SuSE Linux 7.2. Either input yields the following error > report: > > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated > tar: Kindprozeß gab Status 1 zurück > tar: Fehler beim Beenden, verursacht durch vorhergehenden Fehler I just tried a download an

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 02.12.01, 14:51:45, schrieb Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Thema Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: > should be no problem with > tar -xvzf LyXTips.tgz Am 02.12.01, 15:31:44, schrieb ABe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Thema Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: > just tipe tar -zxv

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Ronald Florence
ABe writes: > So could you please explain how to decompress LyXTips.tgz? just tipe tar -zxvf LyXTips.tgz Could I remind readers that this is LyX list, not a Linux list? The `-z' option that might work in the Gnu tar included with Linux is not a standard Unix tar option and won't work

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread ABe
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: > Hi, > > none of my archivers is able to open LyXTips.tgz from Herbert Voss‘ > homepage. Neither Power Archiver, nor Karchiveur, nor Ark, nor gunzip, or > unzip will do. None of them are able to process *.tgz files. Renaming the > file to LyXTips.tar.gz d

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Fenn wrote: > Hi, > > none of my archivers is able to open LyXTips.tgz from Herbert Voss' > homepage. Neither Power Archiver, nor Karchiveur, nor Ark, nor gunzip, or > unzip will do. None of them are able to process *.tgz files. Renaming the > file to LyXTips.tar.gz does not change a t