Patrick Nagel wrote: > Hi James, > > On 2009-10-13 20:33 UTC James Tyrer wrote: >> Patrick Nagel wrote: >>> When I right-click on a directory or (a selection of multiple) >>> file(s), I have a 'Compress' sub-menu in which I can choose 'As >>> ZIP/TAR Archive', >> Note the missing 'G'; should be "GZIP/TAR" or "GZ/TAR" or "TAR.GZ". > > I agree. I would vote for 'TAR.GZ' or 'tar.gz'... > >> And, "Here" is redundant and an option for TAR.BZ is missing as well >> as that new ZIP format (which I did install). > > Yes, "Here" just does create a tar.gz for me. A useless menu entry. > 'TAR.BZ2' or 'tar.bz2' would be a good enhancement, I agree. > What do you mean by "that new ZIP format"? I have 'ZIP' in the list, and > it creates a ZIP (as in PK Zip) archive. > >>> which creates a tar.gz archive. I think you have to >>> have Ark installed for this to work. >> Have you tried this? Did it work. > > Yes, it works perfectly here (Gentoo packages, KDE 4.3.2). > Note that I didn't know that there was a problem till I checked the resulting TAR.GZ file with Ark. Your output below shows that directories were added back to "/". So, you would need to open the result in Ark to see if it worked correctly. >> When I click that on the directory "Page-323", I get this file which >> is nor correct and can not be un-tarred: >> >> http://home.earthlink.net/~tyrerj/kde/KDE-4/Page-323.tar.gz >> >> yet another small thing that doesn't work? > > I just downloaded your file and could un-'tar -xzf' it without a problem > (there was a message from tar though, that I don't get often). See my > shell session: > > ----- > pn ~/temp/test $ ls -l > total 120 > -rw-r--r-- 1 pn pn 115178 2009-10-14 12:45 Page-323.tar.gz > pn ~/temp/test $ tar -xzf Page-323.tar.gz > tar: Removing leading `../../' from member names > pn ~/temp/test $ ls -lR > .: > total 124 > drwxr-xr-x 3 pn pn 4096 2009-10-14 12:53 Desktop > -rw-r--r-- 1 pn pn 115178 2009-10-14 12:45 Page-323.tar.gz > > ./Desktop: > total 4 > drwxr-xr-x 3 pn pn 4096 2009-10-14 12:53 Work > > ./Desktop/Work: > total 4 > drwxr-xr-x 2 pn pn 4096 2009-10-13 07:23 Page-323 > > ./Desktop/Work/Page-323: > total 128 > -rw-r--r-- 1 pn pn 83405 2009-10-13 06:55 323a-1-med.png > -rw-r--r-- 1 pn pn 27097 2009-10-13 06:57 323a-1-thumb.png > -rw-r--r-- 1 pn pn 6494 2009-10-13 07:22 index.html > -rw-r--r-- 1 pn pn 431 2009-10-13 06:29 logo_002.gif > ------ > -- James Tyrer Linux (mostly) From Scratch ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.