>>>>> Rachel Greenham writes:
Rachel> Karl Asha wrote:
>>
>> Seems a lot of people have managed to download the plugin in ascii
>> mode. It needs to be explicitly downloaded in binary mode. The version
>> at ftp.tux.org is correct. That site is actually the central mirror
>> repository.
Rachel> OK, the wget one didn't work either, now trying with
Rachel> command-line ftp from ftp.tux.org explicitly setting
Rachel> bin...
That's strange, wget gets all files in binary mode by default.
Rachel> Woo, that worked.
Rachel> Are we always going to have this problem with sharkives?
Rachel> FTP clients assume it's text and downloads it as such
Rachel> unless there's a way of explicitly specifying binary.
If you use netscape you should use Shift-M1 (or M3 + "Save Link As").
Then select "Source" as the format for the saved document.
This tip is also mentioned in the README file on the ftp sites!
Juergen
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