Re: LYNX-DEV FTP URL with ;type=I

[Klaus Weide]

On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Duncan Hill wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Howard Kaikow wrote:
> 
> > >with it.  You might as well leave them as .doc and instruct them to
> > >use the 'D'ownload key with lynx, shift-click or whatever-it-is with
> > >other browsers etc.
> > 
> > But leaving it as .doc and 'D'ownloading with lynx results in text/plain,
> > that's the problem.

Maybe I misunderstood you earlier.  What exactly do you mean with
"results in text/plain"?  And what option did you select in Lynx
after pressing the 'D' key?

If you don't get an exact byte-by-byte copy of your file on the server,
then I suspect, by now, that that server is not working correctly or
misconfigured.  Have you checked whether a regular ftp client gives you
an exact copy?

(I am assuming you are not using VMS, which I guess would complicate
things.)
 
> Interesting.  I just took a file that I know is binary, gzipped it,
> renamed it to .doc, hit the D key via FTP, reversed the process, and its
> intact as a binary file. Ie, Lynx accepted it (as application/msword no
> less), and saved it.  So I think what Lynx displays may not always be
> accurate.  How does Lynx do an FTP?  Just stream the data?  Or does it
> perform conversions based on what it thinks the MIME type is?

Have you tried to find the answer in the User Guide?

Or you might want to repeat that experiment using .html instead of .doc.

   Klaus

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