Do this: Get internet explorer 5.1.7, install it and
then launch it and go download netscape 7.x. That was
the only way I was able to download 7.x to my
wallstreet. I too kept getting that annoying 'type
octet' message.
Pete.
--- Yersinia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Manfred writes,
> 
> <Go there:
> 
> http://www.netscape.ca/browsers/7/download/index.jsp
> 
> and click "MAC OS 9 users click here">
> 
> Okay, thank you.  :-) Just tried to download it, but
> I got a strange 
> prompt and then some instructions I don't know what
> to do with. Here goes:
> 
> The prompt, which I wrote down,  said "You have
> started to download the 
> file "Netscape-mac-full.bin" of the type
> "application/octet stream." 
> Click "More Info" to learn how to extend Navigator's
> capabilities.  (Yes, 
> I already have Netscape, but it's 4.75, and that's
> why I want 7.) Anyway, 
>  I clicked "More Info" and was sent to a web page
> which told me I needed 
> a  plug-in and offered a plug-in search.  So my
> question now becomes,
> 
> What plug-in do I have to find and download to be
> able to download and 
> use the Netscape 7?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> ~Yersinia.
> 



                
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