Re[2]: General/Wish/RAR Help
Thursday, April 20, 2000, 8:50:51 AM, Alexander wrote: Hi there! On 19 Apr 00, at 19:52, David Smith wrote about "General/Wish/RAR Help": Finally, I have a question regarding RAR and the PGP dll's. The documentation is unclear; are the dll's from the download page necessary in order to use an external PGP program with TB? When I did a _clear_ install of TB 1.41, I found out that the PGP dlls weren't included in the distribution file. I had to put the dlls into TB directory manually. This might be an oversight of developers;-) Most likely. I'm currently running PGP freeware 6.5.3. If so, is there some way to get them in some format other than RAR? Why don't you like RAR?;-) After some difficulties, ;-))) www.rarsoft.com or _any_ search engine;-) It's not that I don't like RAR, it's that I couldn't get it to work. While I could find the web site for it, trying to download the free decompression utility always failed (later attempts giving me an error message of 'user Anonymous not a valid user'). That, combined with the corruption problems.. well, you get the picture. I managed to get the decompression utility (also tried using the full version), however every single RAR file that I try it on shows up as being corrupted in some way, either a CRC error or broken file header or something. This looks like the RIT labs server-side problem. Here's what the RAR developer has to say about this: quote Q: When I download a RAR archive using Netscape Navigator or Communicator, the file is corrupt, what's wrong? A: Apache HTTP server erroneously reports the RAR archive type as text/plain and as a result, Netscape Navigator/Communicator treats the file as plain text. To prevent this happening, those webmasters, who use Apache, should create .htaccess file in each directory which has RAR archives and add the following string to it: AddType application/x-rar-compressed rar If .htaccess already exists, this string should be added to the already existing file. /quote Looks like _exactly_ this problem... I've got into the troubles of this kind once, too. The chmod+.htaccess method worked just fine for me;-) Yep. However, I started with the assumption that - A) the downloads available on the web page from RITlabs were supposed to be useable. Having a setup that corrupts the data if you use the 'wrong' browser is definitely not expected, nor does it inspire confidence. B) the program downloaded to decompress the archive performed according to spec. That a presumably valid download showed up as being corrupted meant that I needed another source for the data. -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
General/Wish/RAR Help
Hello - I'm a new user of The Bat!, having only come across it a couple days ago while doing my annual check on email clients. Actually, that's not completely true; I remember trying it out a couple years ago, and quickly dismissing it. However, I must congratulate the present programming team, as they have managed to come up with something that equals or surpasses my current email client (an obscure one called AK-Mail). The main impetus for my making a changeover is the definite strong presence of constant development. AK-Mail's main weakness is that it's the project of a single developer, and has had only a couple of updates in the last two years. But in any case, TB! is still a far cry better than just about any other standard option out there right now. I realize that there have been innumerable requests made for features for version 2 (or even modifications in the current development cycle), but as they're not listed anywhere, I'd like to make a few of my own. First, a list of the various wish-list requests that have been made. It would be nice to have an idea of what sort of direction the client will be going in the future. Maybe post it on the beta page. Next, customizable key-bindings. Primarily, I would like the quick-search function to be something that can be brought up with some sort of Ctrl-key function, and then allow any standard, unmodified keystrokes to be used for real functions (the one that already bugs me is the awkward Ctrl-M for marking messages as read). A current program that I know of that allows complete customization is UltraEdit, if such an example is of any use. When exporting messages, allow saving files on the Desktop, instead of being forced to use a normal directory. An option so that, when editing a message, when you click in an area to the right of anything that's been entered already, the cursor is not simply placed in never-never land, but placed at the end of that particular line (also known as: disallow cursor placement beyond end of line). Finally, I have a question regarding RAR and the PGP dll's. The documentation is unclear; are the dll's from the download page necessary in order to use an external PGP program with TB? I'm currently running PGP freeware 6.5.3. If so, is there some way to get them in some format other than RAR? After some difficulties, I managed to get the decompression utility (also tried using the full version), however every single RAR file that I try it on shows up as being corrupted in some way, either a CRC error or broken file header or something. The decompression utility is version 2.60, listed as the latest version from the company that makes RAR. I'm running Win2k Pro, and I've also tried it on a system running WinNT 4.0 SP6, and on a system running Win98. -- Best regards, David mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re[2]: General/Wish/RAR Help
Hello, Wednesday, April 19, 2000, 8:04:42 PM, Chuck wrote: I opened it with Winzip on NT4 with no problems. Chuck Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] blink Okayy goes back and tries something else... Amazing. It works fine when I downloaded it using IE instead of Netscape. Checking a diff of the two downloads shows pretty significant differences. Thanks for the clue :) -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
