Ed Cogburn wrote: > Hartmut Figge wrote: > > > 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? > > 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'.
It doesn't do that for me! I have navigator 4.08 and the file was decompressed. Very annoying.