Re: tlug: .tgz files

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sat, 9 May 1998, Joe Marchak wrote:

> 
> Jonathan wrote:
> >> There's a small one I want to download, but when I click the link, it
> >> dumps the contents into my browser window.  Needless to say, this isn't
> >> very helpful to my downloading efforts.
> 
> Craig wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I've always wondered whether this was a bug ... on some sites the *.tgz
> files are recognized OK, and others do a screen dump.  This shift-key
> trick is great.  Thanks!

I think it depends on the server sending the right MIME type.  You can
specify in apache's config files what mime types to send for what files.

> 
> 
> Joe Marchak
> joem@example.com
> 
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