Ftp downloads
Martin Smith
martin at rakupottery.org.uk
Sun Nov 23 15:34:05 GMT 2003
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 12:58:08PM +0000, Michael Pye wrote:
> Daniel Finnimore wrote:
> >I want to download the floppy install programs/images but ie6 brings it
> >down as ascii. I have tried ftp from the dos prompt using ftp
> >ftp://ftp.uk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD from both my windows box and a
> >Freebsd box to no avail. What am I doing wrong?.
>
> Depends if you have a program on your system thats registered to handle
> .iso filetypes. If not then IE probably defaults to plain text.
>
> I suggest you use a proper FTP program such as CuteFTP, smartftp etc.
> which will handle the files fine.
you could use command line ftp in windows, if it exists on yiur flavour, I understand that cuteftp is phone home ware, or even netscape!
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Martin Smith
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