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.
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Best regards,
David mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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