You can also hold the shift key while you left click
on the file you want to download. Nice huh?
Dacia
--- Fran Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ...
>
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