Re: 'What is the Apple IIGS' MAJOR UPDATE!

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-2vw-this>]

  To: Alex Lee
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:35:34 +1000, Alex Lee wrote:

> OK, this is what I've found thanks to testing on my girlfriend's Dell laptop.
> 
> Downloading the .zip files through Firefox 3 results in zip files that 
> open in either WinRAR or the built in Windows XP zip decompressor. The 
> folder containing the 2image disk archives appears as normal once 
> decompressed.
> 
> Downloading the .zip files with Internet Explorer 6 results in the 
> problems in decompressing the zips. WinRAR shows the corrupt looking 
> file as several people have described. It's probably also occuring with 
> IE 7.
> 
> I'll let the web developer know of this issue.
> 
> In the meantime, try out Firefox 3 (www.firefox.com) and your download 
> problems and HTML rendering problems will be over.

I just downloaded the Sierra Demo with Firefox and it worked fine this
time.

I'm wondering if the double zip problem with the Cinemaware Demo is
something that has bit me a few times in the past year.  Some web
server/client combinations can negotiate to gzip data before sending it
across but there is never any user interface element to tell the user
that this is happening.  Internet Explorer seems to be particularly
brain dead when it comes to this as it will negotiate to gzip the data
that gets transferred but then simply save the gzipped data on the
client's end without changing the suffix (filetype) to let the user
know.  This might only happen when using the "Save Target As..." option
in IE7.

I know it happen to me when downloading some text files and I couldn't
open them only to find that they were much smaller than I expected and
when I took at a look at their contents, discovered the gzip header.
Adding a .gz suffix allowed me to unpack them without any problems.