Hartmut Figge wrote:
>
> greetings,
> well, now it´s me who have to whine.
> firstly, a hearty ggrrrrhh.
>
> my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before
> saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to use
> another version, which will download a file _unchanged_ if demanded.
>
> could someone - preferably with version 4.61 or 4.08 - please download
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/graphics/sane_1.0.1-1.diff.gz,
> check and tell if the downloaded file has the size of 17428 bytes?
>
> for the curious:
> you could think, why bother, let the communicator unpack the file, you
> could then pack the file again and you will have, what you wanted.
> but it´s not so easy.
> i´ve done so, played with the availabel compression levels, but get
> never exactly the same size the file has had before downloading.
>
> but the size of this file is essential if one will create a glibc2.0 deb
> from the deb-sources, which i must do because nearly all new packages
> are compiled with glibc2.1 which i will not tolerate on my slink system.
>
> even playing with Netscape.ad was not sufficient to educate my 4.6.
> surely, i could use other prgramms to download my files - and in fact i
> have done so - but i will not.
>
> tia
> hafi
Yes the file is 17428 bytes. Hold down the shift key when
clicking on a file to download; this will cause Netscape to
download 'as-is'.
--
Ed C.
