On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 07:33:16 -0700, G J Feig wrote: > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Gregor Jones wrote:
> --------snip----------- >>> 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. > I confirm this...it is NOT a .gz file... > Apparently, angelfire detects the Lynx or NS or Mozilla browsers as > being able to automagically gunzip, so it compresses the file, "on > the fly" and expects the user to have set that browser up to > automagically gunzip. > Arachne has NO builtin capability to seamlessly gunzip and angelfire > detects that and sends the raw file, uncompressed. So, the problem > is (1) angelfire automagically compressing the file when it detects > a browser it knows is configurable for auto-gunzip, and (2) users of > such browsers not configuring their auto-gunzip capable browsers to > actually do that auto-gunzip. > It is not Glenn's fault. Thank you very much to all who have confirmed this. :))) http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/ara171ue01.htm has been updated to fix the problem. It now links to a ZIP file (ar171sfx.zip), which contains ara171ue.exe (no more confusion about what to do with the file to get it working) ;-) To all who had any kind of problem as a result of this..... Please accept my most humble apologies for not knowing what the problem was and not fixing it much earlier. -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
