On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 11:52:47PM +0100, Andrew Collier wrote: > Please download that file from the website, on as many different platforms > as possible, and tell me whether or not they work.
Well if you put it on a server that's actually up at weekends it might help... I did get to contact it during the week to ask it what type it thought the disk file was, and I believe it said the type was application/x-gzip with no encoding, which I have reproduced at <http://ruby.comlab.ox.ac.uk/test/test.dsk.g> (that's right, the name doesn't end with gz). The other way that the server might serve the file is as type application/octet-stream with encoding x-gzip, which I have reproduced at the same location with the single letter z added to the name. The file in question is disk which is blank except for a copy of samdos2. The result was that Netscape 3 on Windows did not corrupt either of them. It did say "unknown type application/x-gzip" and "unknown encoding x-gzip", but each file was saved properly and could then be uncompressed and read. I do not have WinZip, GetRight, GoZilla or any app that might interfere with Netscape. Just plain Netscape 3. First time I've used it for ages. I also tried the (sadly rather out of date) sam-users archive, and it did corrupt that, because the encoding x-gzip was unknown to it and it therefore treated it as unencoded text. imc
