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Has anyone downloaded Markus Noga's legOS files successfully? I keep getting corrupt gzip files. Using Netscape I've tried right clicking and picking "save as", but still seem to get corrupt files. The file size looks right, but all the versions of (...) (26 years ago, 22-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have had the same problem. Also using netscape. -- jim (...) (26 years ago, 22-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have successfully unziped the file using the gzip that is part of the Cygnus package, but I have been unable to untar the file using the Cygnus TAR utility. I wish it was ziped using the standard Intel PKZIP. I also wish it was 100% usable under (...) (26 years ago, 22-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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Brian, Try ie4. That seemed to work. (...) (26 years ago, 22-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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Brian Stormont wrote in message <367F357F.78F8ECEC@p...jo.com>... (...) It's because Netscape defaults to ascii download mode, which won't work. Only binary mode works, and thats the default for MSIE. Sorry, but i don't know how to change that. (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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WinZip is good, but I would try Aladdin Expander or StuffIt. Made for the Mac and the PC -- moreover, its free! You can find it here: (URL) luck, Carl (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Have you tried WinZip? I heard it works quite well with gzip and tar files. Laurentino Martins *<||:-) [mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt] [(URL) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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Thanks, IE 3.0 also works. It's wierd that Netscape doesn't handle the files correctly. Also related to legOS, I am working using win95 and had a bit of difficulty getting everything working just right, so I thought others might find useful a (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That's only standard on MS platforms. the rest of the world uses tar. PKZip is from PKWare, not Intel. (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) <Bing Bing Bing> whoops my "holywar detector" just went off. It's interesting how the original mindstorms software was only available for windows. (which does make sense, there are a lot of windows users out there) and because of this there (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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The problem is Mindstorm came out for the PC crowd. Not everyone that is buying these systems have UNIX or LINIX . CYGNUS has come out with tools that allow one to compile UNIX code on his/her MSDOS PC. This IMHO is a god-send. The other problem is (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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