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arXiv: Downloading Source Files

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O.

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Nov 5, 2010, 12:31:34 PM11/5/10
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Could anybody tell me how to download the following source files?

http://arxiv.org/format/math/0607607v2
http://arxiv.org/abs/math.DG/0211159

Because it appears impossible, I always get a corrupted file.

Taco Hoekwater

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Nov 5, 2010, 12:38:53 PM11/5/10
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Works fine for me. The first source downloads as a TAR archive
(with the somewhat odd name '0607607v2'), the second as a latex
source file (with name '0211159').

[taco@boo Download]$ ls -ltr 0607607v2 0211159v1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 taco taco 2846720 2010-11-05 17:34 0607607v2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 taco taco 107201 2010-11-05 17:35 0211159v1
[taco@boo Download]$ md5sum 0607607v2 0211159v1
4b731ca86435a6a7b465faeb7aa3dca2 0607607v2
7261f2bc736f93e2f08fd733ec4bbeaa 0211159v1

Best wishes,
Taco

Michael Williams

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Nov 5, 2010, 12:53:31 PM11/5/10
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For some reason, and depending on OS and browser, arXiv does not always
appened a .tar extension to the source file.

If you're on OS X, Linux or some other Unix then this is not a problem:
you can open the file with tar from the command line, e.g. "tar xvf
0607607v2".

If you prefer to stay in the GUI, you may need to manually add the .tar
extention so that your OS recognizes the filetype and launches the
appropriate program to open it.

-- Mike

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