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LYNX-DEV RE: LYNX: HUGE FTP BUG???
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David Combs |
Subject: |
LYNX-DEV RE: LYNX: HUGE FTP BUG??? |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:17:39 -0800 (PST) |
I have downloaded lots of stuff via
lynx's ftp facility. I never really questioned
what it was doing about "set binary" that
raw ftp has you say for binary files, so the
bits don't get fiddled when going from one
KIND of machine to another.
Well, I have an example:
If you go to the javabook.html page (via lynx):
Information about the current document
You have reached the Information Page
Lynx Version 2.7.1ac-0.89
File that you are currently viewing
Linkname: EckelOBJECTives
URL: http://www.EckelObjects.com/javabook.html
Charset: windows-1252
Server: Apache/1.2.1
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 02:44:09 GMT
Last Mod: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 18:16:39 GMT
Owner(s): None
size: 688 lines
mode: normal
Link that you currently have selected
Linkname: solutions.zip
URL: ftp://www.mindview.net/pub/eckel/solutions.zip
and click on "solutions.zip",
number [45] in vikeys mode:
to make some changes to the source code.
_________________________________________________________________
Selected exercise solutions for Thinking in Java
This is a zip file containing selected solutions: [49]solutions.zip
_________________________________________________________________
The printed version of Thinking in Java
and download it -- presumably to a NON PC machine, eg a SUN --
you will get ONE version of it.
Try to unzip it -- won't work (at least doesn't for me).
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NOW, NOT using lynx, do it again --
THIS TIME via raw "ftp" command to that ftp-site listed above,
then cd to pub/eckel
SET BINARY!
then download solutions.zip (having renamed the prior one...)
THAT one will unzip just fine!
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OK, guys -- I agree it probably isn't lynx -- most of my "bugs
found" aren't. But please tell me what I have done wrong
in using lynx for this.
Thanks!
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