From: Adriano (adriano.angelillis_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Oct 17 2005 - 13:45:37 PDT
Safari puts the TEXT extension at the end of the file after having
downloaded NCU, so that it looks like "NCU.sit.txt"
After having manually deleted the letters ".txt" OSX asks if you
really want the file to be kept as a Stuffit archive...
Il giorno 17/ott/05, alle ore 20:13, Zoont Foomby ha scritto:
Out of curiosity, why should it matter how the NCU installer is
downloaded,
since it is a Stuffit archive. If it was downloaded in ASCII mode
(which I
didn't know modern browsers even did), and as such the download
messed up
the file, Stuffit should not have been able to extract the NCU installer
from the archive... we shouldn't even be able to get as far as
running the
installer. I have a feeling that the step where you reinstalled
classic was
where things got fixed...
How did you force Omniweb to download the file as binary and not
ASCII? This
is a common option in doing FTP transfers, but I don't think I've seen a
choice of how to download files (ASCII v Binary) in a browser for a very
long time (maybe Mosaic did that? Lynx probably had an option...).
OR, did
you download the file via FTP from UNNA (is that possible)?
Since I know 'tone of voice' is hard to interpret from an e-mail,
please do
not read this as flame. I'm not calling you wrong, I just don't
understand.
BTW, assuming that your discovery about the ASCII vs Binary download
of NCU
is correct, it is quite an important note... one we should perhaps
have the
UNNA coordinators post as a note on the download page for NCU at UNNA.
Thanks,
Z
On 10/16/05, John Hay <OceanCity_at_mac.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, this is EXACTLY what I went through.
>
> Like I said, try downloading the sit file again from UNNA making
> CERTAIN
> that you're browser downloads it as BINARY and not a text file. I
> could
> not accomplish this simple task in Safari, had to use Opra or OmniWeb.
> Then it finally downloaded as a binary file.
>
> The Other thing I did, because I was in a position to do this so
> easily
> as to reinstall Classic onto my desktop dual G4 which I have dedicated
> to Newton projects.
>
> Unfortunately I did the latter first, then the former. Hopefully
> you'll
> be able to do it in the reverse order that I did, or just the first
> step.
>
> John
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 10/16/05 WIley Wiggins issued the following and I have taken literary
> license to pass it along on a "Need to Know Basis" . . . ?
>
>
>> I left it going when I went to work. When I came back home 8 hours
>> later it was still "preparing to install".
>>
>
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