On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, TSHACK wrote: > I did that, but for some reason, it took hours to download the archive, my > machine bombed in the middle, and it wasn't really a download, you know, > like an ftp link, but saving the web page to file. I don't know why this > should take so long, but it did.
You can't really have a download that isn't really a download. Not to mention that the web is mostly just a graphical interface to the lower level commands such as ftp. That is kind of what you get when you click a download via the web - not exactly an anonymous ftp but close. Sounds like the latency in your connection was kind of high. > I got the zip file that Guillermo sent me, but its coming out as a TXT file, > and isn't formatted correctly. Everything is run on. I'm fooling around > right now with changing the file extension to see if that works. OK, we can talk more in depth about this off-line if you'd like, but file extensions have no bearing on much of anything. They are simply there as a naming convention to help people understand file contents, but only if they happen to be used that way. The fact that you can change the extension should give you a clue about this. The bottom line is that extensions have nothing explicitly to do with file content. If you want that use magic numbers. As for the formating, my guess is that you were sent a compressed text file. That means that your data was transmitted in binary form. Since you say "everything is run on" my guess is that Guillermo's system is *nix based and consequently only uses the <carriage return> end of line marker. Microsoft as usual chooses to be different and uses a <carriage return> <line feed> end of line marker. That is one of the problems of distributing a compressed version of the file. If your system uses a different data representation it will do the conversion when exchanging text via the web or ftp. You can't do this step to a binary file. I'm only guessing at the cause of your problem. In any case, this is all computer technical stuff that we can take off-line and figure out since it is not topical for this list. - Wayde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Cameramakers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rmp.opusis.com/mailman/listinfo/cameramakers
