Re: FTP Downloading w/Lynx

[ab616@chebucto.ns.ca (Tony Cianfaglione)]

  We fixed this problem several years ago at our freenet.  Ask your
sysadmin to add .shk, .SHK, .bxy, .BXY as binaries in their mime-types
file.  Any unknown extensions are automatically treated as text transfers
so Binscii'ed stuff is usually fine.

   Shareware Solutions II featured an article on this problem several
years back, just after we fixed our file - would have saved us a lot of
head scratching if the article had come out first. ;-)

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James Poore (av368@lafn.org) wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone out there has tried to download from an FTP 
> site using Lynx?  Everytime I try downloading a .SHK file it comes out 
> damaged!  Text files copme out OK.  I tried setting the default filetype 
> on Proterm 3.1 to binary and text but no difference.  When I download 
> from a HTTP site downloading is a snap with no problems.

> Ideas?

> TIA
> Jim