Re: tlug: .tgz files

[craigoda@example.com]

From: Felix Morley Finch <felix@example.com>
Subject: Re: tlug: .tgz files
Date: 8 May 1998 19:54:53 -0000

felix> >>In article <3553540C.A6F43B58@example.com>, Jonathan Byrne <jpmag@example.com> writes:
felix> 
felix> > This may be so basic that I should be embarassed to ask,  But I will
felix> > anyway :-)
felix> 
felix> > What MIME type do I need to set up in Netscape to download a .tgz file? 
felix> > There's a small one I want to download, but when I click the link, it
felix> > dumps the contents into my browser window.  Needless to say, this isn't
felix> > very helpful to my downloading efforts.
felix> 
felix> I may be completely wrong here :-)  but when I looked at my Netscape's
felix> mime types, I found nothing for .tgz or anything similar.  It dawned
felix> on me that your problem may be *having* a mime type for .tgz, when if
felix> you didn't, Netscape would ask you where to store the thing.  Try that
felix> (but be sure to save the entry before deleting it, if you have one :-).


Press and hold down the shift key when you select the link for downloading.
A window will open and ask you where you want to save the file.

Regards,
Craig

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Craig Oda   craigoda@example.com   http://tlug.linux.or.jp/~craig


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