Re: No Connections

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 12:29:03PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >--- Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >> No, I don't have IE5 installed, but I can connect to the sites via
> Netscape.
> >> 
> >
> >Setup uses techniques used by IE5, I suggest that you at least install and
> get
> >working IE5 before attempting the install.  Or, download each package
> manually,
> >be cautious of the Netscape filename mangling and do a local install from
> >setup.exe.
> 
> FWIW, I've tried to accomodate browser filename mangling in recent versions
> of
> setup.
> 

This is so unreliable I don't see how you can accomodate this.  E.G.: If I
right click and choose save as I get a file ending in _tar.gz; but, if I click
the file name and choose the save in the dialogue I get a file name ending in
_tar.ARC.

Cheers,

=====
---
   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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