[Insight-users] bug 0005991 DOS carriage returns in ITK .zip release cause problems on OS X / unix from

[Dan White]

Hi Luis

re bug 0005991
which i think you just closed?

On Mac OSX the default archive format in the Finder is tio make .zip  
files.
So many users are getting used to being able to use zip on OSX.
There is little sense in saying zip is only for windows,
and tar/gzip is only for unix.
Is there a reason why the contents of the zip and tar/gzip archives  
should be different once they are unpacked? I think not.
This caught me out on OSX and it took a while and some hacking and  
help from the lsit to figure out the problem.
There is not info on the download page that says th ezip of only for  
windows, and all other OSs should use the tar/gzip archive. One  
assumes that both archives contain exactly the same contents, and that  
they are not platform specific, which they should not be.... right?

cheers

Dan


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