At Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:27:47 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="henry"> > > I dont know who will will take the responsibility for fooling > > users. > > It sounds like Jamie's explanation was correct. Your browser > uncompressed the file but didn't rename it when it saved it to your > disk. I always disliked it doing things like that. :-)
its not the browser's fault! i'm guessing the web server said it was an application/pdf file with gzip transfer encoding and a filename of "foo.pdf.gz". whats' the browser supposed to do? really, the webserver should strip the .gz from the name, when it decides to declare the file (correctly) to have gzip encoding. (MIME treats gzip like you would (eg) base64. its a method of encoding that doesn't really affect the file underneath. there is no mime type "application/gzip") > > Still hope you experienced Linuxer promote printing-utility ,so I > > can kick out Win . > > Dude! You need CUPS! (Which distribution do you use?) or foomatic, or magicfilter, or apsfilter, or ... (i'm over the whole CUPS thing, mainly because the command line (sysv) interface sucks) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
