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Re: Fresco downloading

#121
From: Matt Nicholls
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 00:00
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In article <na.a8a86f4838.a70290mijassw@argonet.co.uk>, John Evans
<URL:mailto:mijassw@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> Has anyone else had trouble with downloading files using Fresco?  I
> attempted to download `bookvert' and,  instead of a save icon,  the archive
> appeared on the screen as text!!  Saving the text produced an invalid
> archive.  I am using RiscOs 3.70 and StrongArm.

You have two options:
1) Do what you are doing, but don't save it as text, save it as HTML
2) Hold down Shift and then click on the download link. This should
solve all your problems.

Cheers,

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From: Matt Nicholls <mattn@earthling.net>
Subject: Re: Fresco downloading
Date: 1998/04/18
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