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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: kfm and tar files - not working
From:       Dave Nash <dave () gnasher ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       1998-11-30 22:57:51
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Tim Bird wrote:
> 
> I'm using KDE 1.0 as shipped with Caldera OpenLinux 1.3 and I can't
> get kfm to work correctly with TAR files.  According to the documentation
> you just click on the file to view its contents, but I just get a blank
> page.  There's a discussion of other people having this problem, on this
> list in August, but no apparent resolution.
> 
> Anyone have a similar experience, or know of a workaround?

Yeah.  the workaround is to right-click and select "Zip".  KZip does the
job OK.  If it seems to know it's a tar/gzip file (ie it gives the ZIP
option) but KZip doesn't recognise the format, just make sure it's a
standard filename - .tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .b2z etc.

Dave


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