Re: lynx-dev mime-types, server responsibility, etc..

[Ismael Cordeiro]

On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Ismael Cordeiro wrote:

> > Hmm, I just downloaded it with Lynx, and my Zmodem properly undid one
> > level of packaging (Binary II, to tell filetype of the end file), and I
> > went and was able to look in the archive with the archive program. So I
> > guess it *did* get downloaded as text.
> 
> If you pressed "d" on the link it was downloaded as binary. If you just
> pressed Return it was downloaded as text/plain, and probably corrupted.

I'm sorry. That's not correct and it's not what I wanted to mean. If you had
pressed Return the file would have been displayed on the screen. If you had
"printed" the file displayed on the screen with "Save to file" then the
saved file would have been corrupted.

Ismael
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