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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Handbook
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.951108090941.3817A-100000@ring.zenox.com>,
Jeff B. Bolton <jeff@ring.zenox.com> wrote:
>I tried to grab the http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook-html.tar.gz, 
>but every time I try it comes into the browser as garbled text.

Use Netscape, click on it with the right mouse button, and select
save as. Or use mosaic, select download links, and click on it. Or use
Lynx and select it then press d to download the current link.

The point is that a LOT of servers get those file types wrong. I get in
the habit of overriding them.