[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: downloads aren't working

[publicMailingAddress@xxxxxxxxx (Ryan)]

(answer)
> > You might do better to try downloading an all-in-one bundle:
> > http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

I already had, I'm trying to add on all the add-on's to the 
(3.4) IDE for Java EE.

(Ryan)
> > Also, I noticed somewhere, in trying to download files (sorry, 
> > can't remember where, that the downloader could not 
> > unzip a file because it was an unknown format, 
> > but it was a .jar file. 

(answer)
> > Sounds like you were trying to install PDT and hit one of the mirrors 
> > that thinks org.eclipse.php*.jar is a php file rather 
> > than a jar. Try an FTP mirror.

So, it said that the .jar file was a .jar file. My understanding of it was
that the .jar files don't need unzipping into the plugin folder, whereas
the .zip files _do_ need unzipping. I might be wrong about that though. It
appeared to me that it was expecting a .zip file, but was getting a .jar 
file. 
Now, though, I'm guessing that .jar is "unzippable" also. (but why you 
would 
want to do that, instead of just placing it into the plugins folder, I do 
not know.)

Thanks,
Ryan