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In article <7k5bg5$k18$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, Makhno
<ars25@cam.ac.uk> writes
>A problem I had, which took me ages to understand, was that when I
>downloaded the realplayer rpm from real.com and tried to install in linux I
>kept getting the error:
>
>blah blah cannot be installed.
>
>I eventually discovered this was because I had downloaded it from Netscape
>in windows, and it had defaulted to ASCII mode for the transfer!
>If you must use windows to download linux stuff, use an ftp client.
>
The other PITA (both Nutscrape and Exploder) is that if you download a
compressed file, they have a habit of uncompressing it for you. If I
download a 600kb file to floppy, I don't expect it to choke with a "disk
full" :-(, or when I feed it to "tar ...z" or gzip it complains that
it's not what it was expecting...
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