Re: More adventures in game crunching...

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:44:42 -0800, "Michael J. Mahon"
<mjmahon@xxxxxxx> wrote:


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>
>When I did a "Save target as..." in MSIE 6, the files were automatically
>extracted and saved without directory info, but the file names were left
>intact, including the now-misleading .gz on the end. Removing the .gz
>left me with perfect .dsk images.
>
>This the first time I have observed a "transparent" extraction during
>a "Save target as..." download. Frankly, I'm surprised and annoyed
>at this un-asked-for "helpfulness". It must have something to do with
>the MIME-type associations... ??
>
>-michael
>
>Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's!
>Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
>
>"The wastebasket is our most important design
>tool--and it is seriously underused."

I had the same results with Firefox. The only hint I had that
something odd was happening was the 140K filesize of the images as
they arrived at my end. Surprise and annoyance is a pretty good
description of it.

- Mike
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