Re: possible oops on ASN 10 and Perl-ldap .23

[David B. <d.b...@ma...>]

Cliff,
That's actually a quite common problem in Netscape, it has to do with the
fact that Windows filenames use the extension of the filename as the key
indicator to determining the type of the file rather than "magic numbers"
and the like(which unix does better), and when downloading files, netscape
trys to determine the type of the file (so that it can open it/run
it/action it automatically) by parsing the filename for a recognised (up to
three letter) extension following a fullstop. I'm guessing that they parse
from the beginning of the filename rather than the end, and the double
extension confuses it.  to avoid this, rather than clicking on a link to
download the file that it points to, right-click and choose 'save link as',
and it skips over the bit where it try's to figure out what it's extension
means.

David.

At 07:02 AM 4/23/01 -0500, you wrote:
>
>It appears that my Win98 and NT systems strip the .gz off the 
>end of the file name.  On my Linux and Solaris systems it pulls
>the file down with the proper file name.  In the passed I guess
>I pulled down the files with linux and then moved them to
>the Windows systems.
>
>Something for the faq I guess.
>
>Regards,
>
>Clif Harden           INTERNET:  c-h...@ti...
>
>
>
>> 
>> Thats odd, I just looked in the CPAN mirror directory on search.cpan.org
>> and the file there is compressed with a tar.gz extension.
>> 
>> Did your browser remove the .gz on download ? I have had that problem
>> before.
>> 
>> Graham.
>> 
>> On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:13:17PM -0500, Clif Harden wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > Where did you get these files ? CPAN or SouceForge ?
>> > > 
>> > > They had .tar.gz what I uploaded, but I must confess I was using
>> > > IE on windows and the files were on a samba server at the time
>> > > so anything is possible I guess.
>> > > 
>> > > Graham.
>> > > 
>> > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:08:59PM -0500, Clif Harden wrote:
>> > > > 
>> > > > Graham,
>> > > > 
>> > > > I believe there is a minor problem with the cpan 
>> > > > ASN 10 and Perl ldap .23 modules.
>> > > > 
>> > > > They end with a *.tar, but they are not tar files.  They
>> > > > are gzip`ped files and should have *.gz or *.tgz on the
>> > > > end of them.
>> > > > 
>> > > > I just move the *_tar.tar to *_tar.gz and unzipped and untar`ed 
>> > > > them as usall.  Everything thing went fine from that 
>> > > > point on.
>> > > >  
>> > > > Regards,
>> > > > 
>> > > > Clif Harden          ch...@po...
>> > > > 
>> > > > 
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > 
>> > CPAN.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Regards,
>> > 
>> > Clif Harden           INTERNET:  c-h...@ti...
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