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From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
To: "Jonathan Pryor" <jonpryor@vt.edu>,
	"cygwin" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: Compiled executable differences between 9x and NT
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 06:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006501be6c94$19375990$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> (raw)

>As for the download issue...  I hadn't run into that before.
>Is "application/zip" close-enough for a tarball?  e.g.
>
>    <a href="gecl.tgz" type="application/zip">source tarball</a>
>
>(I didn't see anything referencing "tar" in the IANA database,
>but I saw "application/zip", which seems to fit...)
>Hopefully, this should fix the mime type problem -- if you're
>accessing from an html page, anyway.  I'm not sure how to set
>the mime-type on a file when _directly_ accessing the file,
>instead of through an href.  Thoughts?
>


The Netscape latest version (version 4.51) seems to have some bugs which
I noticed.  On Windows Nt and 98 it is corrupting the *.tgz and tar.gz
archives.  Upon extraction or doing a gzunip I get *invalid archive
format* errors.  I discovered this problem with Netscape 4.51 yesterday
when i was downloading *.tar.gz archives from a few different sites.


--SMS


>Thanks,
> - Jon
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Glenn Spell <glenn@gs.fay.nc.us> wrote:
>
>>Mumit Khan wrote:
>>>
>>> Could someone test it on a Win95 B (I know it works on Win95 A)
*without*
>>> IE 4.0 and see if it still works? I wonder if IE is the deciding
factor
>>> here.
>>
>>I run Win95B and I allow *no* traces of any version of MSIE on
>>my system. The filesystem and the registry has been wiped clean
>>of anything I can find having to do with MSIE.
>>
>>The 'test.exe' still causes the blue screen but only the program
>>terminates. The system does not crash.
>>
>>BTW, I could not use Netscape or Win95 to download the package
>>because the webserver returns a "Content-Type" of "text/plain".
>>I grabbed it with lynx on FreeBSD then transferred it to Win95.
>>
>>-----------------------------------------------------------
>> http://www.acm.vt.edu/~jonpryor/Projects/gecl.tgz
>>
>>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>>Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 02:48:45 GMT
>>Server: Apache/1.2.5
>>Last-Modified: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 23:05:34 GMT
>>ETag: "1d2e3c-2b688-36e5a93e"
>>Content-Length: 177800
>>Accept-Ranges: bytes
>>Connection: close
>>Content-Type: text/plain
>>-----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>-glenn
>>
>>--
>>            Glenn Spell <glenn@gs.fay.nc.us>
>>         Fayetteville, North Carolina, U. S. A.
>>  ____________________________________________________
>>  ... blue skies ... happy trails ... sweet dreams ...
>>
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From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
To: "Jonathan Pryor" <jonpryor@vt.edu>,
	"cygwin" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: Compiled executable differences between 9x and NT
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006501be6c94$19375990$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990331194500.GX7iHYqp-SBJcwEhMXpZPXukSmWF18f71EikT7KdJCQ@z> (raw)

>As for the download issue...  I hadn't run into that before.
>Is "application/zip" close-enough for a tarball?  e.g.
>
>    <a href="gecl.tgz" type="application/zip">source tarball</a>
>
>(I didn't see anything referencing "tar" in the IANA database,
>but I saw "application/zip", which seems to fit...)
>Hopefully, this should fix the mime type problem -- if you're
>accessing from an html page, anyway.  I'm not sure how to set
>the mime-type on a file when _directly_ accessing the file,
>instead of through an href.  Thoughts?
>


The Netscape latest version (version 4.51) seems to have some bugs which
I noticed.  On Windows Nt and 98 it is corrupting the *.tgz and tar.gz
archives.  Upon extraction or doing a gzunip I get *invalid archive
format* errors.  I discovered this problem with Netscape 4.51 yesterday
when i was downloading *.tar.gz archives from a few different sites.


--SMS


>Thanks,
> - Jon
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Glenn Spell <glenn@gs.fay.nc.us> wrote:
>
>>Mumit Khan wrote:
>>>
>>> Could someone test it on a Win95 B (I know it works on Win95 A)
*without*
>>> IE 4.0 and see if it still works? I wonder if IE is the deciding
factor
>>> here.
>>
>>I run Win95B and I allow *no* traces of any version of MSIE on
>>my system. The filesystem and the registry has been wiped clean
>>of anything I can find having to do with MSIE.
>>
>>The 'test.exe' still causes the blue screen but only the program
>>terminates. The system does not crash.
>>
>>BTW, I could not use Netscape or Win95 to download the package
>>because the webserver returns a "Content-Type" of "text/plain".
>>I grabbed it with lynx on FreeBSD then transferred it to Win95.
>>
>>-----------------------------------------------------------
>> http://www.acm.vt.edu/~jonpryor/Projects/gecl.tgz
>>
>>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>>Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 02:48:45 GMT
>>Server: Apache/1.2.5
>>Last-Modified: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 23:05:34 GMT
>>ETag: "1d2e3c-2b688-36e5a93e"
>>Content-Length: 177800
>>Accept-Ranges: bytes
>>Connection: close
>>Content-Type: text/plain
>>-----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>-glenn
>>
>>--
>>            Glenn Spell <glenn@gs.fay.nc.us>
>>         Fayetteville, North Carolina, U. S. A.
>>  ____________________________________________________
>>  ... blue skies ... happy trails ... sweet dreams ...
>>
>>--
>>Want to unsubscribe from this list?
>>Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com
>>
>
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             reply	other threads:[~1999-03-12  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-12  6:06 Suhaib M. Siddiqi [this message]
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-03-12 11:57 Jonathan Pryor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Jonathan Pryor
1999-03-12  5:17 Jonathan Pryor
     [not found] ` < 0f3801be6c8a$9c41d7c0$e63d2509@jonpryor.raleigh.ibm.com >
1999-03-12 10:58   ` Glenn Spell
1999-03-31 19:45     ` Glenn Spell
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Jonathan Pryor
1999-03-11  7:37 Jonathan Pryor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Jonathan Pryor
1999-03-10  4:59 Jonathan Pryor
1999-03-11  7:03 ` Anders Norlander
     [not found]   ` < 36E7DAFC.7D1AE3AC@hem2.passagen.se >
1999-03-11  7:08     ` Mumit Khan
1999-03-11  7:17       ` neud
1999-03-31 19:45         ` neud
     [not found]       ` < 199903111508.JAA27393@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu >
1999-03-11 19:14         ` Glenn Spell
1999-03-31 19:45           ` Glenn Spell
1999-03-31 19:45       ` Mumit Khan
1999-03-31 19:45   ` Anders Norlander
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Jonathan Pryor
1999-03-09 15:19 Jonathan Pryor
     [not found] ` < 0ac501be6a83$48632630$e63d2509@jonpryor.raleigh.ibm.com >
1999-03-09 17:07   ` Mumit Khan
1999-03-31 19:45     ` Mumit Khan
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Jonathan Pryor
1999-03-09  5:43 Jonathan Pryor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Jonathan Pryor
1999-03-08 18:37 N8TM
1999-03-31 19:45 ` N8TM
1999-03-08  6:21 Jonathan Pryor
     [not found] ` < 088201be696e$f2867650$e63d2509@jonpryor.raleigh.ibm.com >
1999-03-09 12:20   ` Geoffrey Noer
1999-03-31 19:45     ` Geoffrey Noer
1999-03-09 12:27   ` Mumit Khan
1999-03-31 19:45     ` Mumit Khan
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Jonathan Pryor

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