Seems like nobody's really tried to solve this one :) If you poke
through the netscape configuration menus, it's pretty simple to fix this
sort of thing. Open up the Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Applications
configuration menu. Add an entry like this for rpms:
Description: 'RedHat Package Manager' Package
MIMEType: application/x-rpm
Suffixes: rpm
(x) Save to disk
Should be good to go. Add an entry for anything you want to save
in there, like .tgz, etc...
HTH, Matt
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Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MicroComputer Specialist University of Tulsa
Engineering and Natural Sciences
"I don't remember yesterday. And today, it rained."
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Richard Watts wrote:
>
> > Howdy.
> >
> > Red Hat is the only Linux distribution I've ever tried that shipped with
> > a crippled browser. In fact, it's the only *OS* I've ever tried that
> > shipped with a crippled browser. What do I have to do to make
> > Communicator (4.04) as shipped with Red Hat 5.0 *download* files with
> > extensions like "rpm", "tgz", "gz", "tar", etc., instead of *displaying
> > binary garbage in the browser window*?
> >
> > I've been to Netscape's online support pages, run (quickly) through the
> > Netscape news groups, checked the Red Hat mailing list archives, tried
> > viewing the contents of the browser "Help" menu (but that just crashed
> > the whole browser), everything I can think of. It would appear I'm the
> > only person on the planet that's ever had this problem.
> >
> > I suspect a mime-types problem, but I don't "get" the raw file, and I
> > don't "get" the interface Netscape's "Preferences | Navigator |
> > Applications" presents, since you'd have to understand mime types to use
> > it anyway. Why isn't there something that says, "if this extension,
> > download" (well, the Applications preferences implies that that's the
> > case, but I don't "get" the "x-application-*" stuff, so it's way too
> > granular for me)?
> >
>
>
> I have this problem too, I've been having to right click on the link and
> do a 'save link as' to download stuff. So you're not the only one getting
> that error. Until someone can post a fix for it, just do the 'save link
> as' in the meantime.
>
> Richard
>
>
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