Re: [Q] Does anybody else have problems with W3M

[Preben Randhol]

Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/06/2000 (11:41) :
> You've almost certainly downloaded in ASCII mode. Try 'bin' in your FTP
> client before the download.

Why should I want to use an FTP client when I want to do this with w3m ?
Please look at the w3m package if you do not know what it is.

> (The '[Q]' in the subject is probably unnecessary, by the way - pretty
> much everything's a question here :))

Probably, but it is easier for me to keep track in this rather heavy
trafficked mailing list. I'll have to sit down and read the doc on
scoring some day... :-)

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Re: [Q] Does anybody else have problems with W3M

[Colin Watson]

Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have problems with W3M when I try to download files through the ftp
>protocol (e.g ftp://somehost/somefile). I get a file that the program
>'file' says is data and not .tar.gz or .deb etc... Downloading from a
>http://somehost/somefile works nicely.
>
>Does anybody have these problem (could somebody check?)

You've almost certainly downloaded in ASCII mode. Try 'bin' in your FTP
client before the download.

(The '[Q]' in the subject is probably unnecessary, by the way - pretty
much everything's a question here :))

-- 
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]