OT: Lynx, Linux, and file downloads

[Gregory Nowak]

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While you shouldn't put .gz extensions in your mime.types as binary
files, you could put in tar.gz, and that should fix your problem. 

Greg


On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:15:47PM -0500, Luke Davis wrote:
> Probably a "duh" situation.
> I did a google search, but didn't find anything.  Think I may have solved 
> this on one system last year, but forget how.
> 
> A new lynx install on Debian Woody (stable), can not properly handle 
> binary file downloads.
> For example, if I go to an URL containing a tar.gz file, instead of 
> seeing:
> 
> Application/gzip d)ownload or c)ancel
> 
> I get:
> 
> "/tmp/tYRd4q/L6434-10TMP.gz" may be a binary file.  See it anyway?
> 
> /etc/mime.types advises against using it to specify types for compression 
> schemes, and in trying to use it for that, it made no difference.
> 
> How do I convinse lynx (v2.8.4rel1, by the way) to treete these as files 
> to be saved, not files to be sent through less?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Luke
> 
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