Re: [Bug-gnubg] Problem with source snapshots - Browser Downloads are in ASCII?

[Michael Petch]

On 08/02/2011 5:25 AM, Michael Petch wrote:
> I discovered what was going on (but not why). I should have realized 
> that one of the ways a download would be larger (and not work) is if 
> the binary file was transferred as ASCII and not binary. Firefox is 
> downloading with ASCII on so we are getting extra characters because 
> of the CR/CRLF translation that gets done. 

If one wants to verify this, the gunzip webpage has a small c program 
that can fix the CR/CRLF issue:

http://www.gzip.org/fixgz.c

Once compiled, If you take the firefox download and run this program and 
then use the 'tar xfz' method it works.