From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 28 03:49:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA21484 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 03:49:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail11.digital.com (mail11.digital.com [192.208.46.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA21475 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 03:49:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com (cssmuc.frt.dec.com [16.186.96.161]) by mail11.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) with SMTP id GAA20907 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 06:42:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mofo.frt.dec.com by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA20041; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 12:42:33 +0200 Received: from mofo.frt.dec.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mofo.frt.dec.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA00398 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:02:43 GMT Message-Id: <199708271602.QAA00398@mofo.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from decebal of Wed, 27 Aug 1997 13:03:51 GMT. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: FTP out of order from FreeBSD ?? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:02:43 +0000 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk decebal writes: > We have been trying for several days to download packages from any of > the packages directories without success. The only result we get is a > bizarre text (many uncomprehensible symbols) on our netscape window. > Otherwise, we succeded in importing files from other non BSD sites. So > the problem comes very likely from your sites. > Thank you for confirming us. highly unlikely. Much more probable is that you're downloading a binary and forgot to hold down the shift key when you clicked on the URL. --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) garyj@muc.de (play) gj@freebsd.org