Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:13:12 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> Couldn't save the file with Arachne, but had to dig it out >> at the DOS level. Instead of saving I get a listing of what's >> inside the zip file. > At the point of the contents shown on-screen... > Press F2 and save the ZIP where you want. I guess I can handle that. <grin> I thought it was broken as it wasn't working like it did before. This is a nice feature, I suppose, for those in the know or who want to know what's in a zip. But there's no indication of what to do for an ordainary user who's not going to muck around with editing configuration files. Shouldn't the default be useability for the ordainary user? > If you prefer the saveas screen to come-up automatically. > Simply comment-out these lines in mime.cfg by placeing a ';' > at the start of each line. > ;application/zip ZIP>TXT|[300]unzip -l -v $1>$2 > ;application/x-zip ZIP>TXT|[300]unzip -l -v $1>$2 > ;application/x-zipped ZIP>TXT|[300]unzip -l -v $1>$2 > ;file/.zip >TXT|[300]unzip -l -v $1>$2 > With those 4 lines in the [glennmcc stuff] section near the > top of the file commented-out... these orginal lines further > down will now get used instead. > application/zip ZIP > application/x-zipped ZIP > application/zip ZIP > ;file/.zip >TXT|[300]unzip -l -v $1>$2 > As you see, the original line for 'file/.zip' was aready commented-out. > Therefore, linking to any ZIP file on our HDDs would simply pop-up the > unkown file type screen with this message. > "Arachne doesn't know how to handle following file type:" > By uncommenting those lines... Arachne now _does_ know haw to handle it. > She now shows us the contents of the ZIP file so that we can decide > wheather or not to save it to disk. > If contains nothing of interest... we can now just go ahead and > deltete it without saveing it somewhere to be later unzipped to > find out what's in it. (now we already know what's in it) > -- > Glenn > http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ > http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ > http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan USA Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --