* Paul (gabaod@yahoo.com) [030522 14:08]: > How do i get lynx to stop trying to view binary files > as text? > > i do a lynx http://www.blah.com/blah.zip and it > tries to view it as text, instead of prompting me on > if id like to download the file instead. > > Im wanting it to prompt for download when i specify a > direct url to a file, and also when selecting a link > it prompts to download. Does this happen every time, with every type of file you want to download, or only from a certain site? My first guess is that www.blah.com is broken, and sending blah.zip with a Content-Type of text/plain (or something other than application/zip, anyway). Unfortunately, probably the best you can do in this case is to mail the webmaster there and hope someone can fix the problem on their end. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.aclu.org/ It's all about Freedom.
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