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Subject: Re: Browser incompatibility with FreeBSD server?
To: LFLOYD62B@aol.com (LFLOYD62B)
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 09:00:11 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <1fb12359.349fc3fe@aol.com> from LFLOYD62B at "Dec 23, 97 09:00:28 am"
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This is in the configuration of netscape. You need to tell it to copy
to a file things that end in .flp.


In a previous message, LFLOYD62B said:
> I am using a Macintosh 68030 machine with MacOS 7.53 Rev 2, Mac TCP 2.06, Open
> Transport 1.1, AOL 3.0. Using  Netscape  browser I tried about 10 times to
> download the FreeBSD floppy files. Each time the download pulled up gibberish
> in the browser and flashed percentages as if it was downloading but it never
> asked where to download the file, & when it reached 100% it appeared to start
> all over again then crashes & AOL then logs me off. So I decided to switch
> browsers to see what it would do it appears to be working fine with the AOL
> browser. Did this happen because they are unix files and my other browser
> didn't know what to do with them? Why does this happen with your server? How
> can I prevent this from happening with my macintosh 3.04 netscape customers?
> Is this a bug?
> 


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