[Qgis-user] [offtopic] acquiring Alaska data

[Matt Wilkie]

On 3/9/07, John C. Tull <jctull at gmail.com> wrote:
> Also be sure to modify your request and have the data delivered as
> tar gzipped files (or whatever the alternative to zip is). Especially
> with the NEDs, I find that the directory structure gets all screwed
> up when they are unzipped from standard zip format. This is on a Mac,
> so it may be OS dependent. Just thought I would throw it out there.

I didn't read your warning until I'd already downloaded everything.
Happily I can report that on Windows both command line unzip from
cygwin and with 7zip gui the archives extract properly.

Having has many problems in the past with WinZip and the built-in zip
support with Windows XP Explorer I didn't even try them.

cheers,

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-matt