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About LinkBacks- 04-11-2009, 02:32 AM #1
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.jar and .zip
I uploaded a .jar file I made to my site. When I downloaded it to make sure it worked, it saved as a .zip. Does anyone know what might have happened?
- 04-11-2009, 03:10 AM #2
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What do you mean by "it saved as a zip"? If you mean that the file name changed, then the downloading software screwed up.
Otherwise note a jar file is a zip file: that is, it has a zip file's format. It is quite possible for other software to treat it as a zip file: for example WinZip will extract the contents. This includes desktop manager software that might have given it a zip file's icon, or associated it with a generic unzip program so that that program gets invoked when you double click the icon.
- 04-11-2009, 03:35 AM #3
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Ah, so I guess WinRAR is treating it as a .zip? The only way I got it to work is by renaming it from filename.zip to filename.jar. I guess I'll go read up on this then, thanks.
- 04-11-2009, 03:41 AM #4
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So you're saying the file got renamed?
Some Windows programs try to be very "helpful" with regard to file extensions, but I'd count that as a bug.
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