Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 16:44:47 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: slightly OFF TOPIC: WordPerfect and downloading via Netscape Communicator ... Message-ID: <3915FFEF.BFF45988@gorean.org> References: <20000507.19391100@bartequi.ottodomain.org>
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Salvo Bartolotta wrote:
>
> Dear FreeBSD'ers,
>
> I decided to try the free version of Wordperfect; I used Netscape
> Communicator 4.72 to browse the linux.corel.com site.
>
> I did NOT succeed to download the GUILG00.GZ file via Netscape
> Communicator. That is, the usual trick "save link as" did NOT work, as
> well as any other idea that came to mind at that moment.
>
> Ok, I thought, let's @#~`§* [output severely censored] Netscape
> Communicator. I opened a terminal window, I issued (wait for it) the
> plain old ftp command, I fed it with the address of one of the
> Wordperfect downloading ftp site I had found out previously ... et
> voila, Wordperfect IS being downloaded.
>
> Go figure ... but I still wonder whether I have missed anything, ie
> any brain-damaged tricks making Communicator work in such cases.
Actually it's the brain damaged configuration of the word perfect
site's web server.
Doug
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