> When you try to download any .tgz files, the web server reports a MIME
> type of text/plain, which means that I can't correctly download the file
> in Netscape under Windows becuase it messes up the binary data in the
> process of 'translating' UNIX text to MS text.
Is shift-click any help in saving this?
I seem to remember having trouble opening some tar file in winzip
and using the cygwin32 command line one instead, on the same file, without
problem, so it's probably worth trying another tar. (You should get some
crc error unpacking the gzip if it's an ascii format conversion problem.
If the error doesn't occur until you try to open the ungzipped tar file,
it's unlikely to be an ascii format problem).
> The MIME type should be set to application/x-gzip.
Isn't the "MIME" type (actually content-type) meant to reflect the
underlying (uncompressed) file format and then compression handled by
the content-transfer-encoding negotation instead? If so then x-gtar
would be a better choice.
nitpicking Stuart :-)
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