RE: FTP site problems

[Greg Wildman <bullion@is.co.za>]

On 04-19-96, Speedy_survechay@msn.com wrote to All:

 Sc| (excuse my lack of quoting but I can't figure out how)

 Sc| I've had exactly the same problem on GROUND... I can't download
   | Shrinkit files, or any binary files for that matter. I believe that
   | the problem can be traced to the fact that these files contain BINARY
   | information, but have their filetype set to ASCII. This confuses LYNX
   | and it can't open it. On the other hand, HQX (BinHex) and plain text
   | documents open fine, since they are marked as text and actually
   | contain it.

 Sc| As of yet I have not found a way to get around this :< so I have not
   | been able to download from GROUND yet. I am currently using a
   | graphical browser on my PC, so I am going to try and see if it does
   | the same thing.. Perhaps the folks running GROUND would be able to
   | help us if we could get in touch with them (I couldn't find an E-mail
   | address on the site.)

I use lynx on my unix account with similar problems, but I can download
the file. If I press <RETURN> when the file is highlighted, I get garbage
on the screen. If I press <D> to download the file when it is highlighted
it downloads and then gives me an option to save. This way works fine and
everything un-shrinks ok on my //e.

A while back somebody posted a method to get lynx to recognize shrinkit
and binaryII extentions. I tried this and it works great! Now when I
press <RETURN> on a highlighted filename it tells me that it cannot
display this file, do I want to download it. (which of course I do)

The file you need is called .mime.types - that is with a preceding dot
(.) Mine is in my $HOME dir and has rw-r--r-- permissions. I can run lynx
from any dir and it work's great. I can't remember the http address of
the guy's page where I got it from, so here it is..

application/x-Shrinkit shk SHK sdk SDK Shk Sdk
application/x-BinaryII bny BNY bqy BQY bxy BXY bsc BSC bsq BSQ Bny Bqy Bxy
Bsc Bsq

 * 2qwk! 2.01 * Hams do it with frequency, till their GIGAHERTZ.