Re: [newbie] Netcape/ftp
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 ... __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com
[newbie] Netcape/ftp
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 ...
Re: [newbie] Netcape/ftp
The same thing happened to me. Another way to get around this is to go into preference/navigator/applications and make an adjustment to one of the file types already setup as "save to disk" such that the extension of the file you are downloading will be recognized. Properly, a new application type should be setup, but then you need to know the MIMEType for the file. The workaround suffices. Then, when you click on the icon, you will be prompted with the save dialog box. Cheers, philomena At 10:15 AM 6/6/00 -0400, you 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 ...
Re: [newbie] Netcape/ftp
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 ... __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com
