Re: Having trouble downloading ShrinkIt archives

[jonrelay@napanet.net (Jon Bettencourt)]

In article <B63B42D3.DEFD%sheppy@sheppyware.net>, Eric Shepherd
<sheppy@sheppyware.net> wrote:

> in article 8v4r1a$msd$1@nnrp1.deja.com, sacredring@my-deja.com at
> sacredring@my-deja.com wrote on 11/17/00 6:54 PM:
> 
> > I'm having the hardest time trying to download and use ShrinkIt archives
> > from the Internet. Netscape on UNIX treats ShrinkIt archives like text
> > files, even if I configure the MIME types. The wget program treats
> > ShrinkIt archives as text as well, and there is no way that I've
> > discovered to change this configuration.
> 
> In Netscape, you can force it to save the file as binary (on the Mac anyway)
> by clicking the Save as Source option in the save file dialog box.  I don't
> know how the interface for this is done on other systems.

I was told to select Save As Text on a Mac (even though it's not a text
file). This is the way I've been doing it and it has worked every time.

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