Always nice to have alternatives :)
Thanks,
Bambi
Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
> 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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