[ANN] rpncalc-1.0 RPN Calculator For Python

Kent Johnson kent3737 at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 28 13:05:01 EST 2004


Raymond L. Buvel wrote:
> Kent Johnson wrote:
>> The .tar.gz file seems to be corrupt, opening it with WinZip it 
>> uncompresses the .gz then I get "Error reading header after processing 
>> 0 entries."
> 
> 
> This is a problem I have encountered with WinZip before.  The compressed 
> tar file was created with Python's tarfile module with the 'w:gz' mode. 
>  The resulting file works fine with a number of archive packages under 
> Linux and with the tar command in the MKS toolkit under Windows.
> 
> If I get around to it, I may make a .zip file available for Windows. 
> Until then, I suggest you use Python's tarfile module or something other 
> than WinZip to read it on a Windows platform.

Thanks for the tip. I was able to uncompress it using tarfile.

Kent



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