On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:02:34 -0500 (EST), Gregor Jones wrote: <snip>
> Just make life easy. If you want people to download a DOS executable, make > it a DOS executable. Simple! Don't put a gzipped file labelled as a DOS > executable. Then all clients will be happy. As I showed in my last mesasage.... that's what it IS. It IS a DOS executable with a size of 1,039,025 bytes. I never ran it through Gzip before uploading it. I uploaded it as-is and Arachne is downloading it as-is. ftp> 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> I also uploaded testdoc.doc as-is and Arachne downloads it as-is. When I D/L that same file with Lynx... it gets Gzipped to 5,714 bytes instead of what's plainly on the server (an Msword .DOC file os 23,552 bytes) ftp> dir testdoc.doc 200 Port command succeeded. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for LIST. -rw-r--r-- 1 /id/glenndoom Angelfire 23552 Nov 29 22:55 testdoc.doc Transferred 76 bytes in 0 seconds (0.074 Kbytes/sec) 226 Transfer complete. ftp> -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
