[tex-live] LZMA

[Axel E. Retif]

On  24 Sep, 2008, at 19:38, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>  
> wrote:
>
>>   There is a little problem with tug web-server and LZMA (at least  
>> for
>>   Darwin): it tries to assign to it extension txt
[...]
>>
>> What do you mean by "tries to assign to it extension txt"?  That your
>> browser on darwin wanted to save something as foo.exe.txt?
>
> No, it is not true for everything but if I try to download darwin it
> tries to save
>
> http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/tlpkg/installer/lzma/lzma.universal-darwin?revision=9317
> it as
> lzma.universal-darwin.txt
> with no -x- permissions (not a big deal but could be confusing for  
> some)

The same ---confusing for me--- happened when I tried to download  
tlmgr.pl with Safari. Even if I deleted the extra .txt extension  
Safari added to the file, the script was useless. I had to use wget  
(actually, CocoaWget

http://en.cocoawget.nobody.jp/ )

to download it.

Best,

Axel