RE: MiNT 1.15.1.beta-1 problems

["Howard Chu" <howard.chu@platinum.com>]

> > > > http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~fnaumann/mint/1.15.1-beta/
> > >
> > > GUNZIP reports:   "not GZIP format" ....
> > >
> > > Is your GZIP binary corrupted?  Mine works, I just unpacked some
> > > stuff from Funet with it, so... ;-/
> >
> > The problem seams to be that the http server is not aware that ´.tgz´ is
> > a binary format, and sends the file as MIMEtype text/plain. Some
> > web-browsers seams to have problem with this Netscape atleast. Lynx
> > usally gets it right if you choose to download the file. //Robert
> If that is the case, he just needs to add .tgz to the
> options/general preferences/helpers (using netscape)
> That will correct download problem.

No, it probably won't. The server needs to be configured as well - if it
treats a binary file as a text file there is bound to be corruption from the
server end of things.