RE: MiNT 1.15.1.beta-1 problems

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@hal.fishpool.com>]

On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Howard Chu wrote:

> > > > > http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~fnaumann/mint/1.15.1-beta/
> > > >
> > > > GUNZIP reports:   "not GZIP format" ....
> >
> > 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.

Actually, I went back with IE 3.02 and it recognized it as 
a binary, where Netscape 4.05 did not...  

This is how I managed to finally download the "bootproblem"
binary (which, btw, was a straight GZ file - dunno who the
hell got the idea my "troublesome" file was a TGZ).

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