From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "Jonathan Pryor" , "cygwin" Subject: Re: Compiled executable differences between 9x and NT Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 06:06:00 -0000 Message-id: <006501be6c94$19375990$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00377.html >As for the download issue... I hadn't run into that before. >Is "application/zip" close-enough for a tarball? e.g. > > source tarball > >(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 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 >> 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 >> > > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "Jonathan Pryor" , "cygwin" Subject: Re: Compiled executable differences between 9x and NT Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <006501be6c94$19375990$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00377.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.GX7iHYqp-SBJcwEhMXpZPXukSmWF18f71EikT7KdJCQ@z> >As for the download issue... I hadn't run into that before. >Is "application/zip" close-enough for a tarball? e.g. > > source tarball > >(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 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 >> 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 >> > > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com