On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:38:30 -0500 (EST), Gregor Jones wrote: > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> The correct size of the file is 1,039,025 bytes. >> This lets you know that if the file you got is less than that size. >> The download is incomplete and you must do it again. > Errr, no, you managed to confuse a lot of software by creating a gzipped > file that had the wrong file extension on it. Seems like most software > detected it as a gzipped file, but only some automatically gunzipped it, > and did it without asking. I did not create a Gzipped file. The file on the site IS a Dos executable. <snip> > No, Lynx is doing exactly the right thing. It detected it as a gzipped > file and tells you and, by default, downloads it as such and labels it as > such. But if you tell Lynx you want the .exe file than it gunzips it! Wrong. It s not a gzipped file. > Other software just download the file as is. Netscape/Mozilla for example, > which is also correct behviour. > Internet explorer, however, gunzips it without telling you. As does > Arachne. IMHO, this is not correct behaviour. Arachne does not Gunzip it because it is not Gzipped. Even if it we link t o file which IS Gzipped...... Arachne does not contain any code for doing a gunzip to it. It will save the file AS-IS. > I also tried wget on that file, and it did do the extraction. I guess on > the basis that ask it for the .exe file and not the gzipped version. There is no gzipped version on the site. Unless the Angelfire is creating it "on-the-fly". This is the dir listing I just got while FTPed into Angelfire. BootP: Adding Gateway number 1 IP 68.22.80.29 BootP: Adding Nameserver number 1 IP 68.22.80.2 BootP: Adding Nameserver number 2 IP 68.22.80.3 Domain asking server 68.22.80.2 for node ftp.angelfire.com 220 Hello, Welcome to Angelfire FTP. Username: id/glenndoom 331 Username set to id/glenndoom. Now enter your password. Password: 230- Welcome to Angelfire's FTP server. 230- You can create multiple directories under 230- your homepage directory, up to 3 levels deep. 230- Images will not be automatically placed in your images directory. 230- 230- For more info, see the FTP FAQ at 230- http://angelfire.lycos.com/doc/general/ftpupload.html 230- 230 User '/id/glenndoom' logged on. on. raftp> dir ara171ue.exe 200 Port command succeeded. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for LIST. -rw-r--r-- 1 /id/glenndoom Angelfire 1039025 Nov 5 00:10 ara171ue.exe Transferred 77 bytes in 0 seconds (0.075 Kbytes/sec) 226 Transfer complete. ftp> As you can plainly see.... the file is not Gzipped to 1,021,462 bytes. It IS the Dos executable which I uploaded at 1,039,025 bytes. -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
