From: Alistair MacDonald <alistair@slitesys.demon.co.uk>
To: Ged Haywood <ged@www2.jubileegroup.co.uk>
Cc: Bart Oldeman <bartoldeman@users.sourceforge.net>,
Claudia Neumann <dr.claudia.neumann@gmx.de>,
linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Download Problem DOSEMU-1.1.5
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 10:28:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030608092850.GA18901@slitesys.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0306080102400.19619-100000@www2.jubileegroup.co.uk>
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 01:05:34AM +0100, Ged Haywood wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Bart Oldeman wrote:
> > On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Claudia Neumann wrote:
> >
> > > I just tried to download dosemu-1.1.5.tgz from the mirror in Brussels and the
> > > mirror in Dublin. The download didn't stop at 2073 kb, but went on til I
> > > stopped it > 5000 kb. Is there something wrong with the download procedure?
> > Length: 2,121,858 [application/x-tar-gz]
> >
> > This length is correct.
>
> But the TYPE isn't...
> I think somebody forgot to gzip the .tgz file. :(
This is nothing new, its been happening for years ...
Some web browsers have the annoying tendency to decompress files on download.
They don't tell you they are going to do it, they just do.
There is nothing wrong with the file size, or the extension.
Alistair
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-08 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-07 0:07 [ANNOUNCE] DOSEMU-1.1.5 Bart Oldeman
2003-06-07 19:44 ` Download Problem DOSEMU-1.1.5 Claudia Neumann
2003-06-07 22:57 ` Bart Oldeman
2003-06-08 0:05 ` Ged Haywood
2003-06-08 9:28 ` Alistair MacDonald [this message]
2003-06-08 9:50 ` Ged Haywood
2003-06-08 10:58 ` Bart Oldeman
2003-06-08 21:40 ` Claudia Neumann
2003-06-08 22:32 ` Ged Haywood
2003-06-09 12:33 ` Bart Oldeman
2003-06-09 14:44 ` Ged Haywood
2003-06-10 8:41 ` Riley Williams
2003-06-10 8:17 ` Justin Zygmont
2003-06-07 23:19 ` Ross Vandegrift
2003-06-10 20:43 ` DOSEMU-1.1.5 vs. DPMI Peter B. Steiger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-10 9:33 Download Problem DOSEMU-1.1.5 Stas Sergeev
2003-06-13 3:17 ` Justin Zygmont
2003-06-14 8:13 ` Ryan Underwood
2003-06-14 16:45 ` Justin Zygmont
2003-06-10 9:37 Stas Sergeev
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