Re: MIME problem displaying .dvi.gz files in Galeon/Mozilla
On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 09:04:31PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 05:12:23PM -0600, Tom Schutter wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > When I click on a .dvi.gz file in Galeon (or Mozilla), I get a dialog
> > asking what I want to do with the file. But in that dialog, the file
> > is identified as a application/gzip file, not a .dvi file.
>
> that is probably because it _is_ a gzip file. download it and run
> gzip -d filename.dvi.gz
>
> This is similar to .zip files. If you zip a file, you must unzip it to
> use it.
In all fairness, this gzip file thing from webservers and browsers has
been a mess for some time. It's particularly annoying because Debian
gzip's all these doc files as a matter of policy. So, accessing them
via a web browser is always an inconsistent pain. Old Netscrape used
to automatically gunzip files, while new Mozilla doesn't. And the
behavior varies depending on the mime-type reported by the web server
and whether the browser tries to apply its own mime-type heuristics.
End result: You have to copy files already on your hard drive to
uncompress and read them. Not exactly the pinnacle of convenience;
especially when trying to wade through all the texmf docs...
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