Hi! On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 09:23:54AM -0400, Fred Horvat wrote: > I used Netscape Communicator 4.7. I can download it fine but not unpack it. A typical Netscape Communicator for Windows problem in connection with a web server that doesn't know ".lzh": -- snip -- $ telnet atari.nvg.org 80 HEAD /newbiemint/NewbieMiNT-0.01.lzh HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:13:46 GMT Server: Apache/1.2.5 Last-Modified: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:30:58 GMT ETag: "7d4-115776-3800db62" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 1136502 Age: 0 X-Cache: MISS from www-cache.arago.de Proxy-Connection: close -- snap -- As you can see, the server reports "text/plain" as the content type of the file, but it should actually be "application/octet-stream". Netscape for Windows now converts UNIX newlines to DOS crlfs when downloading "text/plain" documents, which is a feature to ensure you can view/edit such files with the typical dumb Windows editor (e.g. Notepad). To get around this, either use a different browser like MSIE, which doesn't do this conversion, or - on the other end - configure (or let it someone do it) the webserver so that it recognizes *.lzh as "application/octet-stream". Apache as of 1.3.0 ships with a correct mime.types file, and the admin of atari.nvg.org should really consider updating to 1.3.9, as 1.2.5 is rather old. Another possibility - if the server isn't configure too restrictively - is to put a .htaccess file into the /newbiemint directory, with the following contents: AddEncoding application/octet-stream lzh (If the server answers with an "Internal server error" after doing so, you aren't allowed to use that directive in .htaccess, or even .htaccess at all.) Ciao Thomas -- Thomas Binder (Gryf @ IRCNet) gryf@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de PGP-key available on request! binder@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/
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