Update: [SDL] General Organizational and Makefile Resource

[Michael Rickert]

--- j_post <j_post at pacbell.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 September 2003 09:04 am, j_post
> wrote:
> 
> >> Another good place to look for documentation on
> those tools is at 
> >>the GNU site -
> http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html . There are
> manuals 
> >>for make, autoconf, automake and libtool there.
> Best of all, they're free.
> 
> > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 08:38 am,
> pvwr at sympatico.ca wrote:
> > >    I had some problems when I tried to open the
> files directly on
> > > Windows. On Linux, I saved the file on disk
> >
> > I am using Linux. Some files just won't begin the
> download. The
> > binutils.html.gz file I did save to disk was
> corrupted (gunzip says it's
> > not a valid format).
> >
> 
> For others who've had similar problems, I thought
> I'd pass along this info. 
> The html.gz files on the GNU site aren't really
> gzipped files (at least 
> Konqueror doesn't think they are). They're html
> files. When saving, I changed 
> the extension from .html.gz to .html, and then I can
> view them just fine. But 
> there is something goofy about these files, because
> Konqueror's progress bar 
> shows *no* progress until the entire file has been
> downloaded (hence I 
> thought it hadn't begun). Maybe this is a "feature"
> of Konqueror.
> 
> Jeff

The other guy mentioned the gz
auto-unziping-without-rename feature, I'll tackle the
progress bar:

It could be that the server isn't sending a
Content-Length header, and hence Konqueror dosn't know
how big the file is, and hence dosn't know what
percentage of the file it's downloaded.

This would occur if the server is compressing the
file(s) on the fly, and hence dosn't know beforehand
what the size of the file is, and hence can't return
the filesize itself!

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