Rumor has it that Jay West may have mentioned these words:
>FYI - I just checked the uncompressed file size on my end (by uncompressing
>the gz file) and the resulting file is in fact 671088640 bytes exactly.
>
>I wonder if something in Jeromes netscape is getting in the way? Jerome, did
>you run WinZip on the file that you downloaded, or does your netscape have
>something in it that uncompresses it on the fly as it downloads or
>something? Perhaps netscape is getting in the way. Also I SEEM to remember
>something about in netscape you shouldn't click on a file you want to
>download, you should right click on it and choose "save as" instead. I could
>swear I remember seeing something posted about certain versions of netscape
>you needed to download that way or something would go awry for certain
>files? Just guessing from foggy memory, perhaps my recollection was related
>to something else.
Yes, sometimes Nutscrape will 'lend a helping hand' and autoconvert files
for you, like it or not. It'll do this with .sit/.hqx files on Macintoshes
as well...
For most/all netscapes that I've used, holding down the [Shift] key when
clicking on the link means "Save As Directly" so you might wanna try that
as well.
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
Received on Sat May 25 2002 - 08:58:34 BST