On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Kalyan Mukherjea wrote: > Hi Dmitri, > From where did you download the files? Thomas had sent me the > url: > http://www.dbs.uni-hannover.de/~te/dvips5.92a/ > > On that page there are 3 links: > to Thomas's web page (Parent directory) > a dvips*.tar.gz file which contains the necessary run time files; > and > _dvips_ which is a binary compiled under SuSE linux 7.2. > > I downloaded the tar.gz file --- no hassle. But when I click > on the link _dvips_ my netscape opens a new page which fills up with > nonsense symbols typical of a binary file. I cannot get the binary > file to download as a file. > > I am sure I am doing something very silly but what should I do? > Maybe Dmitri could send me the url he went to.
Most browsers have an option to download a "link target". Try clicking on the link with the "outside" button (right hand button if you have a right handed mouse). If your linux system is connected to the internet, there are command-line tools to download files such as wget. Also, text-mode browsers such as links and lynx have a "download" command. -- George White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
