FCS files compressed with utilities that generate a "tar.gz" extension may not be extracted correctly by WinZip unless the "Smart Tar" option is turned off. Like many (if not most) people in the PC world, we use WinZip to decompress files. WinZip has an option called "Smart Tar" that automatically inserts a carriage return / line feed (CR/LF) into "tar compress" text documents as they are extracted (see note from WinZip Support below). Insertion of CR/LF into a FCS file creates a seemingly good data file (keyword values are read properly so parameter labels are ok). However the data is nonsense. Here is the response we got from WinZip Technical Support: "I suspect that the 'Tar file smart cr/lf conversion' option is affecting the file. Reverse the setting (ie, check or uncheck) this option on themiscellaneous tab of WinZip's options/configuration pull down menu item. When the TAR File smart CR/LF conversion option is in effect, WinZip determines whether to perform CR/LFconversion for eachfile inside a TAR file by looking at the first 80 characters in each file. If the file is a text file then single LF and CR characters are converted to CR/LF pairs so the file can be viewed by Notepad and other Windows viewers. Files are considered text when the first 80 bytes contain only characters with ASCII values between 0x20 and 0x7f, carriage returns, line feeds, form feeds, tabs, and other alphanumeric characters (as determined by the Windows IsCharAlphaNumeric API)." Don Donald J. Herbert Technical Support Manager Verity Software House, Inc. PO Box 247 45A Augusta Road Topsham, ME, USA 04086 Phone: (207) 729-6767 ext.190 Fax: (207) 729-5443 email: tech@vsh.com web: www.vsh.comReceived on Thu Jul 15 13:18:00 2004
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