Re: Getting good downloads from Apple II http web sites

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@tcfreenet.org>]

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Rubywand wrote:

> 
>      Unfortunately many net servers for Apple II http pages are not set up to
> supply correct MIME type information for popular Apple II file types  such as
> .shk, .sdk, .dsk, .bxy, etc.. As a result, browser downloads from these web pages
> will often be corrupted.
> 
> (By the way, right-clicking on the item will not circumvent the problem. This will
> let you choose to download a file taken to be a Text MIME type rather than have it
> dumped to your display; but, it will not avoid Text mode corruption.)

On the Mac, I tend to use a program called Monica to do my 
downloads...it's a lot easier to deal with than Netscape is for 
downloading.  Monica always does an 8-bit connection for downloading
and I can build up a whole list of stuff I want to download while
browsing and when I finish browsing I can set Monica to go and 
download all the files I selected.

Monica does work with either a 68K or PowerMac (you have to look a
little for the 68K version).  It can be found at:

<http://www.ziggy.speedhost.com/>

I have downloaded many megabytes worth of stuff with Monica
including almost 100MB in one night before my ISP cut me off
after 8 hours.  None of it corrupted, including all the Apple II
stuff I downloaded.

Greg B.

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