Travis Crump wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
>> WDA wrote:
>>
>>> If you go to the following page - 
>>> http://weather.noaa.gov/fax/surface.shtml#sfconus and download Plot 
>>> No. 1, under North America, you will find the file name on your hard 
>>> drive but with zero bytes - the file will be empty.  I went over and 
>>> used IE to see if perhaps there was something wrong with the file 
>>> itself and it downloaded with no problems.  Can someone check this 
>>> and confirm.
>>>
>>> I'm using Mozilla (windows XP) build ID:  2001112803.  This is a 
>>> .tiff image.  I use my computer extensively for meteorological 
>>> purposes and downloading files of this type is a norm for me.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> If I click on it, quicktime tries to load it and it breaks.  If I 
>> shift-click on it I can save it to my hard drive and then view it 
>> fine.  I'm using build 2001113003 under Win2k.
>>
> Their is a notice on their website "*NOTICE---* for error-free downloads 
> use the FTP Server <ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/fax>" which sort of implies 
> that their http downloads are error-filled and it is not Mozilla's 
> fault.  If I go to the FTP Server it works(a randomly chosen tif loads 
> in Quicktime when I left click).  Though if I locate the specific tif 
> link to for North America Plot 1(QYAA00.tif), it also opens broken just 
> like it does when clicking on the link on the main page.
> 

I appreciate your information and apologize for my oversight.


-- 
Wayne Alligood/Amelia Island, Florida
Compaq Computer running Windows XP
"Words rightly spoken are like apples of gold in pictures of silver."


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