Re: .gz in Netscape
Heheh, yeah it's shift-mousebutton, the the prepare to save button always loses the
.gz, but it always seems to save to the drive with the .gz attached
*shrug*
Peter Good.
Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Martin Schulze wrote:
>
> > Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi, All
> > >
> > > stupid question: what i have to do in order to
> > > prevent Netscape from expanding .gz files?
> >
> > Simple answer: Don't use Netscape to download .gz files, use
> > wget instead
>
> ok
>
> > Other answer: Try shift-mousebutton
>
> umm... are you sure?
>
> trying to dl
>
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source/text/less_346-6.diff.gz
>
> and ALWAYS ending up with less_346-6.diff
>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Joey
> >
>
> well, messing with this stuff discovered very strange thing:
>
> d/l less_346-6.diff, more then 30k uncompressed, then tried
> to restore archive and gzip -9 (is it REALLY best compression?)
> gives me file size 10847 while in .dsc the compressed
> file size is equal to 10831 !
>
> and i tested such effect with several .diff files.
>
> any ideas?
>
> thank you
>
> OK
>
> --
> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null
Reply to: