Thanks. Downloading with Internet Explorer solved the problem.
/Ken
Andrew Cannon wrote:
> At 07:36 01/11/98 -0500, Wayne Bjorken wrote:
> >Hi -
> >
> >A Netscape file save tip: Click on the item (as if to select or open it)
> >with your right mouse button. A menu will appear. One of the menu items
> >is "Save ...". Select this and the usual file dialog will open and you
> >may download the file successfully.
>
> This is true, but there's no way to select whether Netscape then does a
> binary or an ascii transfer.
> I found that the download sometimes worked, and sometimes didn't
> (especially for smaller files).
> I finally came to the conclusion that Netscape tries to "guess" whether to
> use ascii or binary mode and this guess seems to be based (in part at
> least) on the file size... ie for small files an ascii transfer is done and
> for larger ones binary!
> Has anyone got more detailed info about this or had similar experiences?
>
> ...ajc
>
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