Subject: Re: More Net DL info
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Rubywand wrote:

>      Interesting results. (110,268 checks with the size I get for a bad
> download of the file under Netscape 4.61 on a Win95 PC. 109824 bytes is the
> size of the Uncook-ed-- good-- file.)
>
>      It appears that the problem with http downloads on many systems may relate
> to a MIME type which your browser is told is "unknown". The different Win95
> results obtained seem to indicate that Netscape's response to "unknown" is to
> assume Text type; whereas, IE's response is to assume Binary type.
>
>      Don't know why Netscape makes the right choice running under Linux unless
> there is something about Linux default MIME type choices which forces Binary.
>
>

I think it may be a bug in the Win version. With the save as there
should be NO file processing for anything, just a straight
binary download.

>
> > As an aside. The download to HFS was nice for me. Now
> > I download straight from the net to a filesystem which the
> > KEGS emulator understands. From there, manipulation
> > is quite easy.
>
>      Really, downloading Apple II stuff to the Win95 PC and NULL modem
> transferring it to our IIgs works very nicely, too. Most Apple II software is
> on ftp sites and a few http sites which do know about A2 files.
>

This was my standard method. The only Apple II I have left is my
//c without a hard drive, so any files which it gets are transfered
useally with ADT. But since KEGS is my favorite emulator I can
download GS stuff directly to the HFS volume.

Phoenyx