Re: Big downloads (was: Re: Oracle 8i EE ON Linux)

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > P.S.: How did you download O8i? When I tried to download with
> > Netscape 4.6, the archive started to load into the browser window
> > instead of going directly to disk. So I had to abort having too
> > few memory to hold the 260MB in the browser.
> >
> > --
> > Lothar Armbrüster | lothar.armbruester_at_rheingau.netsurf.de
> > Hauptstr. 26 | lothar.armbruester_at_t-online.de
> > D-65346 Eltville |
>
> You can train Netscape to not do that. In 4.61, it's
> Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Applications
> and you have to teach it about .tar and .tgz at least. You may have
> problems with files with more than one "." but most of the big ones
> don't.

you can get the same result by just pressing shift when clicking on a link ...

>
> Generally I have to "add" the type, pointing to an application, then
> "edit" it to override the application with the instruction to save such
> files.
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman (805) 650-6274 kevin_at_ayuda.com
> At school: kogorman_at_cs.ucsb.edu
> Permanent e-mail forwarder: Kevin.O'Gorman.64_at_Alum.Dartmouth.org

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Received on Wed Oct 13 1999 - 00:28:29 CDT