On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, zentara wrote:
Terrance L Eck wrote:
Thanks for the reply,
I am forced to download it via Netscape. I don't know how Netscape determined binary/ascii. Is there a switch/option to insure binary under Netscape. In the past I've never had problems with normal files called *.gz or *.rpm but for some reason I've trouble with *.GZ. Any ideas?
I've gotten in the habit, of downloading by right-clicking on the link, then choose "save as". It seems to always work. If you left-click on a link, it will sometimes open a binary file, because the Navigator Applications setting for the file is open, rather than "save to disk". You can change these behaviors in "preferences".
Netscape is smart enough to save a binary as a binary. Go look through EDIT/Preferences/Navigator/Applications and you'll see how to change it.
As I replyed to Dee, My problem occured because I tried to download using Netscape under Win NT 4. Using Netscape and Linux the files were gziped as they were being downloaded. Everything is fine now. I've never had this problem under Win NT before. I'd have used Linux except WinNT is what I have to use at work. Thanks, Terry - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>