Glenn, I wish you were still on the "live" list. <G>
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Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>
> Does this explain to you *why* it's happening?
>
> ---HTT file from the above server---
> <>
> Content-Type: text/plain
Hi Glenn;
Yes, that explains it, but I can't get that info unless I let the (undesired)
page downloadload complete. I can't get that info prior to / during download
with Netscape either. :((
Thanks for going to the trouble of waiting for the download. <G>
I wrote:
Then I looked up the secret handshake for background download: cntrlENTER.
I tried it and for about 20 seconds I was deliriously happy - until it
quit the 1.4Mb download at 130Kb. It must have encountered an EOF.
Glenn wrote:
> No, it did not get an EOF.
> The server cut you off.
> (or you changed to another page during the "background D/L")
> Do the D/L again. (and again if needed untill the server quits cutting
> you off)
You must be right there - even tho I had tried twice and got cut off at the
same point both times, I tried today and with the DEFAULT mime.cfg I got all
the way through .R00 the first time. Then I tried for .R01 and got 1/2 way
through before Arachne (or somebody else) decided it was finished.
I was still connected and everything looked like it was OK, the file was
just way too short.
This NEVER happens to me with ZIPs.
I wrote:
That wasn't the only problem either.
Arachne put that 130kb in my cache dir. NOT the download dir.
Michael, that means I can't download a 1.5Mbfile when I only have 2.5Mb
disk space. Why doesn't the download go directly to \DOWNLOAD ???
Glenn wrote:
> *All* files are placed in the cache directory first.
>
> They won't be placed into the D/L directory until the Save button is
> pressed after the "Saveas" page appears.
I didn't get any "Saveas" page !
This is TOTALLY illogical.
I was DOWNLOADing a file.
I had selected DOWNLOAD in background.
The status bar said DOWNLOADing file.
I was looking at this FTP directory and CAREFULLY not touching ANYTHING.
The download went to 100% and the Arachne copyright status returned.
The page did not change.
Any reasonable person would assume that the file was NOW where it belonged:
In the DOWNLOAD directory and with the proper name.
LD says she can't understand why people have to go fishing in the cache to
find files. This is why. That's where they end up. :-((
WHY would I hit F2 ? Logic says THAT would save the FTP directory I was
looking at, not the file, since there is no indication anywhere that the
file even existed.
> I wrote:
>> Thanks a lot. That worked.
> But the file Dragon76.R00 is 1462966 bytes !!
> A DOS formatted floppy is only 1457664 bytes.
Glenn wrote:
> NS screwed-up the D/L.
> That file *is* 1457664 bytes in size.
>
> I just got it with Arachne.
You are again, quite right, Glenn.
Netscape DID put the file where I wanted, but it ADDED some goobledegook
in the process. I found a copy of the proper length in the Netscape cache.
Thanks for the help, everyone.
Michael, is it possible to bring up the "Save file" screen at the START of
file (not page) downloads, and send the download DIRECTLY to the specified
download directory ?
- Clarence Verge
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