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Re: Amosaic (1.4b)

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From: Robert Harrison
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 16:02
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> In article <29edddde@amigo.demon.co.uk>
>   David Mahon <dmahon@amigo.demon.co.uk> writes:

>> When using Netscape at work, if I point my little mouse pointer at a file
>> to download, and click on it, it realises that .lha is a file that should
>> be gotten with FTP: and not HTTP:.
>>
>> When using Amosaic, especially on the Aminet archives, this would be a
>> nice feature. At present, I have to select load to local disk before I
>> click on anything I want to download.
>>
> [snip]

> This is a bug in the web-page generator for Aminet that periodically pops
> up. It needs to flag the file reference as a download instead of a display
> type page. If this happens to you, use the command T option. (Load to local
> disk) to toggle between stuff to display and stuff to download.

> Patrick

Interesting, same thing started to happen to me after awhile using 1.4b.  The
only thing I had changed was eliminating the Pubscreen=mosaic in mailcap -
when I put it back in - lha's started downloading correctly again!  Is it
because multiview is used?  Anyone know?
ROb
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From: robbhar@csn.net (Robert Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
Subject: Re: Amosaic (1.4b)
Date: 31 Jul 1995 16:02:32 GMT
Organization: Grand Valley Multimedia
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