LYNX-DEV RE: LYNX: HUGE FTP BUG???

[David Combs]

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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