Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 10:44:01 -0800 From: Ben Pepa <bpepa@msn.bc.ca> To: LFLOYD62B <LFLOYD62B@aol.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Browser incompatibility with FreeBSD server? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19971224104401.00794c50@msn.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <1fb12359.349fc3fe@aol.com>
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Seasons Greetings; I had similar problems, but not on AOL. What you have to do in netscape is on the floppy image download page (on the FreeBSD server) is to hold down the [COMMAND] [OPTION] keys while clicking the link to the floppy image (the blue text link). Then a dialog will ask for a location to save on your hard drive. I think the reason the file downloads to the browser, and not to a file is the filename is boot.flp and the .flp is not a recognized file type (like .sit, .txt, .exe etc...). Someone correct me if I'm wrong :-) You can fix this by using setting a new mime type in your Netscape preferences to always save to disk for files with the .flp file extention/prefix. As for AOL's browser, I haven't used it lately so I can't help you with that. Ben BTW; You should not be able to use OpenTransport & MacTCP at the same time. It's one or the other, although they both exist, one should always remain invisible while the other is active - or that may be a problem... Also, try the latest version of OT, which (*I think*) is 1.2.1 availible from www.info.apple.com which may fix the problem. At 09:00 AM 12/23/97 EST, you wrote: >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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