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Re: word not so perfect



Ashley Clark wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, David Blackman wrote:
> > Netscape DOESN'T decompress anything.
> 
> That's odd, it does on mine (sometimes). I've downloaded several
> items, usually of the form blahblah.txt.gz with Netscape and it then
> views them for me, uncompressed, in a browser window. Trying to save
> them also decompresses them. I just tried it, ghoti.org/~aclark,
> there's only one gz file there.
> 
> --
> Ashley Clark

I have to go with Ashley on this one. Sometimes (but not always, IIRC),
a download via Netscape has resulted in a file that I can't gunzip, even
though it still has the .gz name. However if I assume it's already
gunzipped, everything works normally.


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