On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Ged Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Alistair MacDonald wrote: > > > Some web browsers have the annoying tendency to decompress files on download. > > They don't tell you they are going to do it, they just do. > > > > There is nothing wrong with the file size, or the extension. > > No, there isn't, but then I didn't say that. :) > > I've been using Netscape under Linux to download gzipped tarball files > for several years. I've never seen this before: > > http://www.jubileegroup.co.uk/strange_download.gif > > but if someone can tell me why it's suddenly happened I'll be pleased > to know. It could easily be because I've recently upgraded my desktop > machine to Slackware V9 (which has Netscape 7, previously I've been > using 4.7 which certainly never did what you say unless you wanted it).
yes, it really looks like your new netscape automatically decompresses on the fly. I'm not sure what you can do about it but all I know now that it's not a DOSEMU problem -- type, extension and size are all correct :) Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
