Re: help with .bxy files

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <ee18ie1w165w@ospnet.nshore.org>,
Adam Barr <chessie@ospnet.nshore.org> wrote:
>I tried to get marinetti off of its web site but could not get my GS to 
>open the .bxy file at all. I had the browser save it just like the web 
>page said. What am I doing wrong?

   The marinetti.bxy file should be exactly 44800 bytes on disk when
downloaded thru your web browser. If it is not that size, then your
browser has mangled it, most likely by downloading it in ascii mode.
It is not a binscii'd file; it can be read directly by GS Shrinkit
when you get it to your GS in binary mode at every step.

   I've just downloaded it thru Lynx 2.7 for Linux and Netscrape
4.03/Linux on my computer at home. Both downloads unpacked perfectly.
You may need to modify your web browser to accept the filetypes as
binary (this is a fault of the idiotic MIME system having 50 billion
config files on every machine that runs it, and they all gotta agree
or you'll download in ascii mode. Binary mode is much safer and
shoulda been the default).

Nathan Mates

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