From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 17 09:34:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA11969 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kryten.nina.com (dyn049-gnv.51.fdt.net [205.229.51.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA11964 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:34:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from frankd@localhost) by Kryten.nina.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id MAA21926; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 12:32:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 12:32:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Frank Seltzer X-Sender: frankd@Kryten.nina.com To: Paul Michael Babuchna cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: quick advise. In-Reply-To: <199606171559.KAA54436@odin.tcac.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Paul Michael Babuchna wrote: > I have been recently downloading BSD 2.1 from: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/bin > > and have run into a problem. I cannot download bin.au. I get an error > > message of the form- this sound file is corrupt or a file of incompatible > > format. Using Win95 and Win 3.1 and IE2.1. > > Thanks for your time, > > Mike Babuchna > > mikeb@postoffice.tcac.com It looks like you are trying to d/l it using Netscape. Netscape sees a file with a .au suffix as a sound file. Try using SHIFT-mouse click to get the download dialog box and tell it where to save the file Frank PS. I just reread your message and saw that you are using M$ InternetExplorer :-) The same solution applies, however. Frank -- Only in America can a homeless veteran sleep in a cardboard box while a draft dodger sleeps in the White House.