Re: marinetti won't work

[sbehrens@bigfoot.com (Sönke Behrens)]

cranem@shell.athenet.net (Michael Crane) wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Jan 98 16:22:38 EST, chessie@ospnet.nshore.org (Adam Barr)
>wrote:
>
>>I can not get marinetti to unpack. I tried several different programs and 
>>downloaded it many times but I can not get it to unpack it from the .bxy 
>>file. What should I do?
>
>I found that I had to use the text-based WWW browser LYNX to get it to
>download correctly.  Both IE and Netscape on my PC didn't work - even
>with the suggested modifications.

Very true. The PC variants of the two most popular browsers will not,
alas, let you specify to use binary mode for a file they _think_ has
got to be text.

There is a solution to that other than Lynx: The company hosting the
web site can change their server configuration to either assume binary
on unknown extensions, or add .shk and .bxy to the list of binary
ones. Arrowweb did this for me; I don't know how Richard's provider
would react to such a request.

Sönke
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