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@@ -1465,30 +1465,16 @@ You should use cont() for that. Does that make sense? > about x-gzip formatting. I'm running Netscape 2.0 under MS Windows > NT. - x-gzip is a hook for the GNU "gzip" program, which should be -freely available for NT at prep.ai.mit.edu in the /pub/gnu directory. -Here's how our "Global Mailcap" entry for Netscape looks like (see the -"Helper Applications" menu under "preferences": - ----------------------------------------- -# For the format of this file, see -# ftp://wuarchive/doc/internet-drafts/draft-borenstein-mailcap-00.txt.Z - -audio/*; audiotool %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" && test -w /dev/audio -image/*; xv %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" -application/postscript; ghostview %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" -video/mpeg; mpeg_play %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" -video/*; xanim +Ae %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" -application/x-dvi; xdvi %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" -application/x-compress; uncompress %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" -application/x-gzip; gunzip %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" -application/x-zip; unzip %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" ----------------------------------------- - -BTW, if you can't get uncompress to work, please ftp to -wuarchive.wustl.edu and look in the directory -/languages/c++/ACE/ACE-documentation/. All the papers are there, as -well. +To view PostScript files under Win32 you will need a PostScript +viewer such as GSview. You can find GSview and Ghostscript (which is +needed to run GSview) at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/. + +It seems that both Netscape and Internet Explorer mangles the names +of downloaded files to reflect their content type, so *.ps.gz files +are saved as *_ps.ps instead. Fortunately, GSview as of version 2.2 +supports gzip compressed postscript. When set up as a viewer for +Postscript files, files with mangled names can be viewed by GSview +without any preprocessing. ---------------------------------------- |