On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 01:52:52PM -0500, Ian Zepp wrote:
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> 
> On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Balog Jozsef wrote:
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> > Dear KDE'ers
> > 
> > I have a question that I didn't find in manulas of KFM. Maybe it is just an option that i just didn't realise yet. 
> > When I am browsing on the net, there are certain links that just won't "link". Like click here to download this file and if I click there KFM just stops and won't do anything. Later on I found out that the files that I can't download with KFM , don't work with Netscape either. With Netscape it starts to download but the file is not downloaded to my hd but I see the same picture on my monitor as if I opened a binary file with a text editor. I found the same mistake on windows version of netscape too. 
> > 
> 
> I have noticed; is a bug or feature:
> 
> when clicked .tar or .tar.gz files, kfm tries to download the entire file
> from the net (note: with no progress dialog) before then displaying the
> contents of the file.
This rather makes sense, if you ever looked at how tar file are laid out...
(see below)

> Of course, we are not yet allowed to copy to and
> from tarred archived, so what's a guy to do?
Not allowed to copy to and from ?? What's the relation ?
And IIRC, you can copy FROM a tar file. Just drag and drop a file out of it.

> I suggest the default behavior be some different please..
Do you suggest to partially read a tar file from a remove host ?
No offense intended, but this is nonsense.
There is no "index" in a tar file, you see. The files are
put one after the other.

PS : Please report kfm bugs to submit@bugs.kde.org or to kfm-devel@kde.org

> Regards
> 
> Ian 
> 
> > What is the problem? 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance, and sorry for the off -topic. Maybe someone could help me
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > 
> > Balog Jozsef.
> > 
> 

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