OT: Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-18 Thread Hartmut Figge
ed, i fear, we could annoy some people if we continue to discuss a non-debian-specific matter on a debian mailinglist. shouldn´t we go back to pm? Ed Cogburn wrote: > A) I made up the MIMEtypes when I added those > Preferences->Navigator->Applications entries, Hartmut. The > important things ar

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-18 Thread Andreas Voegele
> Now it downloads the sane diff file as 17KB compressed, but I > have to add the .gz suffix to the filename in the netscape > dialog or rename after. Netscape seems to insist on stripping > the extension. > This is closer. Can anyone improve this? Add the following line to y

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-18 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hartmut Figge wrote: > > Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Peter S Galbraith 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 v

source packages (was Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug)

1999-06-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Jun, Colin Marquardt wrote about "Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug" > * Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Now it downloads the sane diff file as 17KB compressed, but I have to add >> the .gz suffix to the filename in the netscape dialog or

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now it downloads the sane diff file as 17KB compressed, but I have to add > the .gz suffix to the filename in the netscape dialog or rename after. > Netscape seems to insist on stripping the extension. I have seen this behaviour without adding any MI

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Peter S Galbraith 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_

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread John Foster
Hartmut Figge wrote: > > greetings, > well, now it´s me who have to whine. > firstly, a hearty gghh. > > 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 ___

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Peter S Galbraith 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. I have this problem w

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
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 - prefe

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 16 Jun, Hartmut Figge wrote about "communicator 4.6 - ftp bug" > greetings, > well, now it´s me who have to whine. > firstly, a hearty gghh. > > my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before > saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to us

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
Use SHIFT-Click when downloading zipped files to stop Netscape from unzipping it. I think there might be a way to configure it not to have this behaviour... -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the http://www.debian.org";>POTATO!

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Ed Cogburn wrote: [interesting things about the subject] assuming that the list isn´t much interested in the question i´ll answer ed per pm. hafi

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hartmut Figge wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > 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'. > > so it should be. but not with my communicator 4.6. therefore i´m on the > search for a ver

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Ed Cogburn wrote: > 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'. so it should be. but not with my communicator 4.6. therefore i´m on the search for a version, which will do, what should be expe

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hartmut Figge wrote: > > greetings, > well, now it´s me who have to whine. > firstly, a hearty gghh. > > 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 fi

Re: Communicator 4.6

1999-05-29 Thread Brad
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Robert Rati wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed Communicator 4.6? Dselect is insisting > on a dependency with netscape-base4 ver >= 10, but the only version I can > find anywhere (stable or unstable) on ftp.debian.org is version 5. Anyone > had any luck? Did you chec

RE: Communicator 4.6

1999-05-29 Thread Pollywog
On 29-May-99 Robert Rati wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed Communicator 4.6? Dselect is insisting > on a dependency with netscape-base4 ver >= 10, but the only version I can > find anywhere (stable or unstable) on ftp.debian.org is version 5. Anyone > had any luck? I installed it but i

Re: Communicator 4.6

1999-05-29 Thread Sean
I downloaded the non-distribution-specific binaries from netscape's ftp site, and everything has worked so far. I'm using potato. Sean Robert Rati wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed Communicator 4.6? Dselect is insisting > on a dependency with netscape-base4 ver >= 10, but the only ve