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Yet on compressed dmg

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Contributed by: Fabro Saturday, November 04 2006 @ 09:39 AM PST

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I must (partly) revise my previous comment: the actual dmg.zip file (21.1 Mb) is a zip file containing a compressed dmg image (21.2 Mb) ... why compress a compresed file?

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Web servers which you don't control - dreamcore

That way you avoid problems with web servers (and some browsers) doing the wrong thing with Apple file types, such as spewing them to you as pages of text.

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Saturday, November 04 2006 @ 09:48 AM PST

Web servers which you don't control - pedrogrilo

Exactly!

And also to avoid Safari ("smelling" a compressed dmg) of adding an extra bz2 extension. Happened with 1.3.1.

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Saturday, November 04 2006 @ 10:09 AM PST