From: Gerhard Thimm (gthimm@zbw.ch)
Date: Thu Jul 01 1999 - 08:24:50 CEST
Thanks a lot for this hint to Harsha.
It's amazing what can happen. Since I use netscape, I fight with this
problem. And yesterday, I browsed the debian-site, I saw that hint. So
simple but I never found it out, tztz.
Gerhard
Harsha Godavari schrieb:
>
> Gerhard:
> If you hold the SHIFT (or CTRL) key down and then click on
> the file name the download proceeds normally. Otherwise Netscape
> treats the file as a text to be displayed. I read about this
> solution somewhere and when I try to download from a unix site or
> ftp site and get the textmode, i tried the otherway successfully.
> Obviously not often enough to remember :-)
>
> Regards
> Harsha Godavari
>
> Gerhard Thimm wrote:
> >
> > Downloading with netscape is a interesting thing, because it can be
> > configured in many ways.
> >
> > I get my lessons while downloading mulinux50. First there was the
> > untar-problem and suddenly it works. What do I remember. It works, if
> > after clicking a name to download, a download-window appears. It could,
> > but mustn't, work if after clicking the name of the file to download, a
> > big windows appears, which is slowly filled up with a lot of chars. When
> > this download finished, it is possible to do the "save-as"-action. This
> > terrible kind of downloading is obtainable in two tastes. With and
> > without decompressing/unzipping while downloading the .tgz file! I don't
> > know, but could imagine, that there are ways to configure netscape to
> > use internal and/or external decompressors?
> >
> > So, when ever possible, a try to setup netscape to show me the small
> > download-window. But, shame on me, I'm not always successful. There are
> > mysterious thing between earth and heaven, e.g.: netscape,
> > software-configuration and so called intuitive user-interfaces.
> >
> > Perhaps this could solve some problems.
> > Gerhard
> >
> > Angoli Giovanni schrieb:
> > >
> > > I downloaded 6r4 with internet Explorer 5 everything works fine, i've
> > > unpacked and installed under Redhat 6.0
> > >
> > > Giovanni
> > >
> > > gangoli@crema.unimi.it
> > > juzam@masse.net <-- home address
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