From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: B20.1:question on using bunzip2 and tar under NT 4.0 Japanese SP3 10 Dec 1998 05:05:03 -0800 Message-ID: <19981209205422.19404.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send106.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Anil K Ruia Cc: Masatomo Ouchi , cygwin users ---Anil K Ruia wrote: > > Instead of left-clicking on the link, right click on it and choose "Save > Link As". Hope that helps > - Anil No! That doesn't help. The browser, Netscape 3.0 Gold or 4.0 Communicator, still thinks it to be a text file. > > I've found that you can't use the browser to download the file as the > > browser thinks that the .bz2 file is a text file. There may be a way > > to change the mode by which your browser download's the file but I > > don't know how to do this. > > > > I always use FTP and set the mode to binary to download a .bz2 file. > == - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".