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File www/build.wiki part of check-in [9eb6ea75c1] - doc changes -- spelling corrections and embedded ref pages. by kejoki on 2008-11-11 03:50:39. [view]

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File www/build.wiki part of check-in [b79994adcb] - Trying to improve the look of the homepage. It is not at all clear that this check-in is any improvement, but it is at least an attempt.... by drh on 2009-08-24 17:45:45. [view]

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 <li><p>Select a version of of fossil you want to download.  Click on its
 link.  Note that you must successfully log in as "anonymous" in step 1
 above in order to see the link to the detailed version information.</p></li>
 
-<li><p>On the version information page, click on the
+<li><p>On the version information page, click on the "[details]" hyperlink
+that appears right after the check-in comment at the top of the page.</p>
+
+<li><p>Finally, click on the
 "Zip Archive" link.  This link will build a ZIP archive of the
-complete source code and download it to your browser.</p></li>
+complete source code and download it to your browser.
+
+<blockquote><i>
+Note to Mac users:  The ZIP archive constructed by Fossil is a well-formed
+ZIP archive.  However, the unarchiver that is built into the Mac has a bug
+in that it does not understand all well-formed ZIP archives.  So you may
+get an error when the Mac goes to automatically extract the downloaded ZIP
+archive.  We are still trying to figure out what it is about Fossil-generated
+ZIP archives that the Mac doesn't like.  Until we do,
+your work-around is to manually extract the ZIP archive using the
+"unzip" command from a command-line shell.
+</i></blockquote>
 </ol>
 
 <h2>2.0 Compiling</h2>