John Block says..

> Just dug about in  settings - mime settings as suggested by Ian. 
> The default is to call up x-arc from netconnect2: 

Yeah. This is fair enough really, but most of the time I personally am
downloading the archive intending to view it later.

> >I defined the MIME-type for lha files as Save (no View).

> There is a button to select save to disk.

Exactly. :-)

> > The VViewTemp.xx files are what V uses when it wants to *view* the
> > files. 
> Or it seems download it before passing it to x-arc.

Same thing, as far as V is concerned. "View", as in "pass to another
program via a temporary file."

> > As for the speed of the ram disk versus the hard disk, the speed of
> > the modem link is far slower than either
> 
> depends on the hd!

I hope you're joking. :)  A V90 modem might do about 5Kb/s which is
around a fifth of what you'd get off a floppy drive!  Even the old
notebook HD I used to have managed a pathetic 200Kb/sec...

Cya,

Ian
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