OT: Lynx, Linux, and file downloads

[Luke Davis]

This line:

application/x-gtar                              gtar tgz taz tar.gz

Doesn't change it in the slightest.

Luke

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote:

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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.
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> Greg
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> 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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