Re: Wolf3D trouble...it's me...

[jsassman@binary.net]

In my directory on my ISP I've placed a 'mime-types' file
which has enabled me to download .bxy files with no problems.
All .bxy suffixes are automagically converted to .shk using
Proterm 3.1 A2, zmodem, and either Lynx 2.7.1 or Lynx 2.7.2,
the latest version of the text browser.

Jim S

>
>Dave Althoff (dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:
>
>> I downloaded Wolf3d last night (Thanks, Sheppy!).  I also downloaded GUPP fro
>m
>> Nathan's FTP site (thanks, Nathan!).  Additional thanks to Nathan for
>> making that available via FTP since even though I've followed all the
>> hints I could find for configuring Lynx2.7 it still insists on downloading
>> BXY files as ASCII...
>
>Ask your Systems Administrator to add .bxy and .shk to the systems's
>mime-types file as binaries.  There's nothing you can do at the Lynx
>level.  The mime-types file tells your sysem how to treat the various
>extensions it sees.
>
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