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[Ken Brakey]

Petric Frank wrote:

> Hello Heiko,
>
> > I downloaded the file with Netscape running Windows choosing "Save link as"
> > and selected the Linux machine (Samba) as the target directory. This way the
> > archive was broken. Now I just run wget and everything was fine ... hmm.
> > There seems to be some LF/CR conversion running - no other reason I can think
> > of. But why ?!
>
> That is a general problem. The web server must define the file like
> tar.gz and tgz as binary files. So this was not done by this web server
> administrator.
> If netscape does not get such a identification it assumes the file type
> 'ascii'. And here it is dependent from the platform what happens. On
> Win*** (and also OS/2) systems this CR/LF translation is invoked. On
> *nix systems this translation will never be done (due not necessary).
>
> Doing 'save link as' also works the way described above on win* systems.
> There should be a 'save link as binary' menu item, as i proposed several
> times to netscape.
>
> You can test this assignment of the web server. If you explore the link
> and get garbled text on the screen the file type was not set properly by
> the web server (and you must use other tools like wget for download). If
> you get a download box,  everythiong is ok.
> Result: Every uploader should ensure that the file type will properly
> set by the web server.
>
> regards
>   Petric

You can also press the [Shift] key before starting the download.
Ken