Peter; What version of kde are you using? I'm using kde 3.5.1 in SuSE 10.1. The facts that you told me have different results in my environment: - The files can be preview in mc, but the names are the same that in Konqueror (withou ~); - Changing the file name, Ark opens the gz part, ask me to confirm if the resulting file is a tar, I confirm, but can't open it. So .. I guess that this behavior must be a "feature" of this version of kde. Regards Lívio On 02 de September de 2006 20:35, Peter Vollebregt wrote:
Lívio Cipriano schreef:
Hi all,
Some time ago I posted a message regarding the fact that Konqueror, with the context menu, compressed files with rar adding "RAR" as extension, instead of "rar". From the posted messages, was not possible to arrive to a conclusion. Now I found even a more strange behavior.
Downloading
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/cdrtools-2.01.01a11.tar.gz ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/cdrtools-2.01.01a11.tar.bz2
and trying to preview them in Konqueror, I receive the error message "Couldn't open the file, probably due to an unsupported file format". The unsupported file format is TAR. Could be damage files, but I can open them with the command line. Other files, with the same extensions, can be previewed in Konqueror.
The strange fact is that I can preview these two files in Konqueror in SuSE 9.2 . Any ideas?
Lívio
Livio,
When i have problems like this with konqueror it is because of some strange characters in the name. Like '?' for example.
Your file can be read with mc (suse 10.1) but that shows another name: cdrtools-2.0~01a11.tar.gz to be exact.
When i rename the file to test.gz i can open it with konqueror (Ark).
Now there seens to be a problem with fonts / locale. But i am no expert there.
Peter
PS: i have had similar experiences with writing to a FAT directory. konqueror only showed and created lowercase names there but i could make capital names from the command line. For FAT i solve this now by adding the option 'shortname=mixed' to fstab. See man fstab and mount.