On Sun, 02 Mar 2003 18:49:12 +0000, Thomas Tabler wrote: > Dear Glenn and List:
> What I can't understand is that the new A. 171UE#1 won't apparently > download anything BINARY from the redhat.com site. This is in apparent > contradiction to what Arachne's CORE.exe reports as happening on the > status line. I have checked, and http referrer=yes and save htt=yes. > This is very surprising from me. Status line says Arachne's ftp > client is logged into updates.redhat.com:21. Any who would like > to reply on List? I may have an unusual drive setup here, but if > this is common, this could perhaps be a real bug. > yours, > Thomas > Dear Glenn: > hear's something else really odd. Even though it saves webpages > great with the new scheme of displaying a page of "this page is > saved to file:..." and it seems to download graphic images great. > But apparently there's some bug with BINARY program transfers, or > maybe large ASCII files being saved to a slave drive or download > directory. This is really odd, to me. Well, this is what happened > when I downloaded a PNG file. Saved to disk just great. > Then when I went back the second time, after reloading the buffer > "R", I got a black screen. Maybe that has something to do with > it. The PNG file is just fine. But it didn't display the second > time in Arachne. I have a ramdisk of only under 7OO MB in extended > memory. Remember, this is one of the newer 486sx/dx type machines. > No expanded memory. > yours, > Tom I just checked to see what kind of filenames you might be trying to save. ftp://updates.redhat.com:21/8.0/en/os/SRPMS/xpdf-1.01-10.src.rpm There's the problem. On my setup the 'saveas' page will attempt to save this file to.... c:\1recv\xpdf-1.01-10.src.rpm That is an invalid filename in DOS. Change it to this and all will go as planned. c:\1recv\xpdf101.rpm -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/
