25 May
2002
25 May
'02
2:44 a.m.
On Sat, 25 May 2002, Roger Merchberger wrote:
I had totally forgotten about that feature. I can't really speak to
Windows Netscape, but in Linux a downloaded .gz file was guaranteed to
be corrupt.
That "feature" greatly boosted the popularity of both Mozilla and
bzip2 compression.
Until Mozilla became stable enough for daily use, I used Lynx for
downloads. Now Mozilla writes your download, as a temporary file, into
/tmp, no matter what the target directory, then moves it to the target
only after the download completes. Since my /tmp filesystem is about
500M, I'm back to Lynx....
Doc
something about
in netscape you shouldn't click on a file you want to
download, you should right click on it and choose "save as" instead. I could
swear I remember seeing something posted about certain versions of netscape
you needed to download that way or something would go awry for certain
files? Just guessing from foggy memory, perhaps my recollection was related
to something else.
Yes, sometimes Nutscrape will 'lend a helping hand' and autoconvert files
for you, like it or not. It'll do this with .sit/.hqx files on Macintoshes
as well...