The same thing happened to me. Another way to get around this is to go into
preference/navigator/applications and make an adjustment to one of the file
types already setup as "save to disk" such that the extension of the file
you are downloading will be recognized. Properly, a new application type
should be setup, but then you need to know the MIMEType for the file. The
workaround suffices. Then, when you click on the icon, you will be prompted
with the save dialog box.
Cheers,
philomena
At 10:15 AM 6/6/00 -0400, you wrote:
>When you go to this type of site, right mouse click and choose "save
>link as" instead of clicking on the file. Then you will get the box
>to save the file and tell it where, etc.
>
>This is a stupid part of Netscape and I wish they would fix it, but
>there it is.
>
>Bambi
>
>
>Piero wrote:
>
> > A couple of days ago, I decided to download a recent version af LICQ
> and the
> > corresponding version of Qt.
> > Using Netskape i contaced the coresponding sites and, whithin these
> sites, their
> > ftp direcories.
> >
> > At this point, the location toolbar of Netscape showed a line beginning by
> > ftp:// . Fine.
> >
> > But, instead of letting a slave window appear, asking if I
> > wanted to save the downloaded file, and in which directory, and under wihch
> > filename, the Communicator window started to become filled with lots of
> > apparently meaningless characters. I restarded everything a couple of
> times,
> > but got the same result.
> > Finally, I waited until the communcator window was totally
> > full, then I went to the file menu and choose the "save page" command. Very
> > happily so, since the saving resulted in a .tar.gz file in one case,
> > and in a .rpm file in the other case, and I have been able to use them
> in order
> > to install what I wanted to install.
> >
> > Now, was all this normal? Or do I have to settle a ftp plugin in
> Netscape in
> > order to have a more "transparent" ftp behaviour? And, in this case, what
> > should I do?
> >
> > Thenk you for leaning on this question.
> >
> > --
> > Piero
> > ------------------------------
> > Dr Piero Caracciolo
> > Ecole Normale Superieure
> >
> > ...humani nihil ...
