Re: [rtl] Source for un-archived source on Web

[Wayne Bjorken <wab@courier.cb.lucent.com>]

Hi - 

A Netscape file save tip: Click on the item (as if to select or open it) 
with your right mouse button. A menu will appear. One of the menu items 
is "Save ...". Select this and the usual file dialog will open and you 
may download the file successfully.


Wayne Bjorken

On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Andrew Cannon wrote:

> 
> At 18:07 30/10/98 -0700, Ken Gibson wrote:
> >Is un-archived source available on the net?  I want to download it to a
> >Windows PC and have not found a utility that can un-tar the releases.
> >
> 
> Ken,
> 
> You can open a tar archive with Winzip <http://www.winzip.com/>.
> 
> However the problem may be that you have downloaded the archive in ascii
> mode, which results in <0x0a> characters in the file being turned into
> <0x0a><0x0d>. Needless to say the archive is then useless.
> I experienced this problem with Netscape (4.05) and could find no way of
> making it do a binary transfer. I was forced to the loathsome expedient of
> using IE to do the download (which worked).
> 
> Maybe that will help...
> ...ajc
> 
> 
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