Re: Fresco downloading

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From: Italia Connections
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 00:00

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In article <na.a8a86f4838.a70290mijassw@argonet.co.uk>, John Evans
<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.

Bookvert & Fresco played the same game for me, but the saved file was not
corrupt. It just needed it's file type setting as ddc.
 
> Since then I have had mixed results from various sources, some files are
> OK some others fail in the same way.

I've (today) had mixed problems with Fresco (Type 3 & 5 errors which cause
it to crash!), but it's dowloaded files OK.

Bob

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From: Italia Connections <bob.williams@no-spam.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Fresco downloading
Date: 1998/04/20
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