Re: SHK files via www: how?

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <4slstm$m7r@cello.gina.calstate.edu>
lcornel@cello.gina.calstate.edu (Louis Cornelio) writes:
>hello.
>
>unless there is an ftp mirror, I have to access the umich archives
>via lynx browser here: 
>http://www.umich.edu/~archive/apple2
>
>There is no problem w/ .bsq files: I follow the link & save to local disk 
>ISP & then zmodem.
>
>But the same doesn't work with .shk files, I guess because I can't issue 
>a "binary" ftp command. Could someone tell me how to transfer .shk files 
>via www/lynx?

Hmm.  Maybe the answer to this should go into the updated FAQ?

Anyway, if lynx is configured in the standard fashion, it will look for a
special file in your login directory to find out whether to use ASCII or
binary mode for FTPing files.  On UNIX systems, the file is generally
called ".mime.types", and on VMS, it's usually called "MIME.TYPES".  I
don't know what it would be called on other operating systems.

Inside this file should be a list of "MIME" file types and the filename
suffixes that correspond to them.  Any file whose filename suffix appears
in this file will be FPTed in binary mode.

For example, on my UNIX system, I have a ".mime.types" file with the
following contents:

application/x-Shrinkit shk SHK sdk SDK
application/x-BinaryII bny BNY bqy BQY bxy BXY

This tells lynx to download Shrinkit and Binary II files in binary mode.
It isn't 100% foolproof, but it works correctly for most files on the
major Apple II FTP sites.

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