Re: getting ftp working

[criterion-consulting usinternet com]

On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 02:41:18PM -0800, jamby97 really opened up and said:
: Well this is a first try.
: red hat 5.2 recently installed.
: Lastnight I finally corrected my irq numbering problem and now I can log onto my ISP. While everything looks good, connection made, able to ping the ISP, and netscape is operational. surfing that is.
: 
: I tried doing a ftp download through netscape and it appears that it not only opened the file which was compressed but downloaded it to the active netscape window.
: 
: What do I have to configure to get it downloaded as a file in compressed form?
: 
: Thanks
:   Jim

This isn't actually an ftp problem; it's what Netscape attempts to do
when it recognizes the file you're trying to download as a mime type
it has an action for...like gzipped files. It will decompress them.

To avoid this, shift-click on the filename, and it will just save it
as you would expect.

Fred Noltie

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