Re: Website for info on improving digital signal?

In article <StTghbBrYieDFwmq@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alan
<junk_reply@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> In message <4dca21c6abjcgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jim Lesurf
> <jcgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

> >
> >I haven't bothered with wolfbane as I'd noticed the 'exe' at the end of
> >files, etc, when people mention files and addresses and I don't use
> >windows or an X86 type machine. I had assumed that it required me to
> >run an exe on my machine (which would fail). Is this not the case?

> In this case, irrespective of what the file is called, the download is a
> picture in a postscript format.

> Depending on your browser it downloads as txpath.ps OR txpath.exe.ps OR
> txpath.exe

OK. I will experiment with this.

> In the case of it downloading as txpath.exe , and your operating system
> hasn't hidden the extra extension, you have to rename the file as
> txpath.ps and then use a postscript viewer to view the picture.

With the OS/filing system I use the system stores the file 'type'
separately to the name. So visible 'extensions' on the name are optional.
When I download the browser will try and follow either what the sending
machine indicates, or read the extension. (Usual MIME rules, etc.) However
I can set a file called "fred.exe" to actually be typed as ps without
changing its name. :-)

FWIW I use Ghostscript as well as some other programmes for handing and
processing ps and pdf files.

> As far as I can see there is no executable content in the download.


<later> OK, I've just had a quick try. If I go to wolfbane.com and use
the 'finder' then it returns an HTML file of the results (despite having
a name with the extension 'exe'! i.e. I don't get ps, I get html sent
to browser and displayed as such. I've checked by saving the file and
reading the contents with a plain-text editor. Do others get ps? If so,
this all sounds a bit like the server-side of things is set up a little
oddly... The results seem spot-on in my case, though, so it seems to do
an excellent job.

Perhaps the people who maintain the wolfbane site should have a look at
sorting out how the files are named/typed/served so as to avoid
confusions like this.

Is there a similar finder for DAB? 8-]

Thanks,

Jim

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