Re: Web Access

Harold Slater (hslater@io.org)
Tue, 17 Jan 1995 16:55:02 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 17 Jan 1995, Wim Osterholt wrote:

> Wow, this works great. The byte counter is pausing sometimes for half a
> minute or so, but the stuff gets transferred.
> (BTW, is it 'transferred' or is it (as lynx says) 'transfered'?)

On my server it first transfers to the servers computer. It then asks
if I want to save it to disk (5 megs alloted to me) or download to
my computer. At 57,600 throughput it takes but a blink :)

> I don't know what magic is involved here, but there is only one little
> confusing thing to mention. Most entries are mentioned to be 00xx.gif .
> I move the bar on such an entry, then I press <return>. This gives me a
> screen of text with the word 'text' highlighted as the only possible choice.
> I press <return> again and now it says that the screen cannot be displayed
> on my terminal. It offers nicely the possibility to download this file.
> Pressing the 'd' shows the miraculous result: the file arrives on my
> machine. It puzzles me why these files are indicated by the word 'text'.

I wondered about that too. Probably just the way the person who put it
on the site did it.

harold