From: Dave Houghton (davehoughton@g0mxw.free-online.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 02 1999 - 17:28:53 CEST
Laudwein Andreas CE wrote:
>
>
> nope, I didn't get a warning, Netscape opened the file into the browser
> window (strange characters)
o.k. in Netscape go to:-
edit
preferences
navigator
applications
scroll to unix tape archives and select edit. Make sure file extension tgz is
specified and select save to disk. When you left click on a .tgz file to
download you will now always be given a "save to" box and binary download.
> Sorry you're wrong again, the problem was indeed that Netscape corrupted
> the tar archive, IE was able to detect it as a binary file, and downloaded
> it "as is"
mmm I thought I might be!! you are quite right there given your first
problem.
> I wonder what my IE would have done, if it has recognized that there was
> Linux inside this archive, but I'm pretty sure M$ will fix this bug in the
> future ;-)
IE doesn't care what it is in an archive as with a binary download straight to
disk the file is never opened but recreated byte by byte.
Dave
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