From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alistair MacDonald Subject: Re: Download Problem DOSEMU-1.1.5 Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 10:28:50 +0100 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030608092850.GA18901@slitesys.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ged Haywood Cc: Bart Oldeman , Claudia Neumann , linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org 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