Re: [Q] Does anybody else have problems with W3M

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org> wrote:
>I have problems with W3M when I try to download files through the ftp
>protocol (e.g ftp://somehost/somefile). I get a file that the program
>'file' says is data and not .tar.gz or .deb etc... Downloading from a
>http://somehost/somefile works nicely.
>
>Does anybody have these problem (could somebody check?)

You've almost certainly downloaded in ASCII mode. Try 'bin' in your FTP
client before the download.

(The '[Q]' in the subject is probably unnecessary, by the way - pretty
much everything's a question here :))

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]