Re: Lynx and binary files
This is being handled by the 'mime.types' file. I don't really know
enough about it, but I'll take a shot in hopes that it will help.
The remote server has a mime.types file that tells it what
Content-type: line to write out. You should be able to fix the problem
by getting the site maintainer to add the 'deb' extension to the
'application/octet-stream' line.
It might also work to add 'deb' to the 'application/octet-stream' of
the mime.types file that Lynx is using at your end. I'm not sure if
this will work, but it's worth a try.
Good luck!
Chris -)-----
On Sep 13, 1:26pm, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Subject: Lynx and binary files
: Good day folks,
:
: I've been runnning into a problem with lynx and download of files.
:
: In an ftp-listing I try to download two files
:
: (a) x.tar.gz
: and
: (b) x.deb
:
: Case (a) works without any problem, but the downloaded file (b) isn't
: usable. I then took look at the ftpserver and found out that (a) was
: fetched in binary mode, but for (b) an ascii connection was used.
:
: Before downloading lynx shows the following (not exactly)
:
: (a) Content-type: application/GNU Compr. Tar
:
: (b) Content-type: text/plain
:
: The question now is, who tells lynx to identify these files?
>-- End of excerpt from Martin Schulze
--
Christopher R. Hertel -)----- University of Minnesota
crh@nts.umn.edu Networking and Telecommunications Services
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