Howdy.
Red Hat is the only Linux distribution I've ever tried that shipped with
a crippled browser. In fact, it's the only *OS* I've ever tried that
shipped with a crippled browser. What do I have to do to make
Communicator (4.04) as shipped with Red Hat 5.0 *download* files with
extensions like "rpm", "tgz", "gz", "tar", etc., instead of *displaying
binary garbage in the browser window*?
I've been to Netscape's online support pages, run (quickly) through the
Netscape news groups, checked the Red Hat mailing list archives, tried
viewing the contents of the browser "Help" menu (but that just crashed
the whole browser), everything I can think of. It would appear I'm the
only person on the planet that's ever had this problem.
I suspect a mime-types problem, but I don't "get" the raw file, and I
don't "get" the interface Netscape's "Preferences | Navigator |
Applications" presents, since you'd have to understand mime types to use
it anyway. Why isn't there something that says, "if this extension,
download" (well, the Applications preferences implies that that's the
case, but I don't "get" the "x-application-*" stuff, so it's way too
granular for me)?
Can anyone help a !mime type? TIA.
Mike
P.S. Red Hat, you need to fix that. Ship your OS with a minimally
functional browser (i.e. one that !mime types can use productively
without going through a massive learning curve).
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