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From: "Caroline Gurney" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Download of Compressed (ZIP) files
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:14:33 -0000
References: <5.2.0.9.2.20021202090055.02f20e70@pop3.norton.antivirus>


Lee Hoffman wrote:

> Caroline Gurney passed on to me information about a minor problem for
which
> other more Windows cognizant persons may be able to elaborate and give us
a
> better solution.
>
> It seems that if you tell your web browser (at least Internet Explorer) to
> download a file and if that file is a compressed (ZIP) file, your web
> browser will automatically append the three letter "ZIP" extension if it
is
> not already there. This only happens if the "Save as File Type" is set to
> "WinZip file". If you change that to "All files", then the "ZIP"
extension
> will not be appended. This will affect TMG backup (SQZ) files, and (for
> v4x) the Custom Source Category (CSC) files and possibly others. As
noted,
> changing the "Save as type" to "All files" will correct the problem (or
you
> can just rename the file to drop the extra "ZIP" file extension).

Lee,

Your first solution doesn't work for me. IE adds the ZIP extension to a CSC
or SQZ file even when "Save as File Type" is set to "All files". The only
solution is to rename the file to remove the ZIP extension after download &
prior to import into TMG.

Others might like to try it out by experimenting with downloading the 2
files UKTMG4.CSC & UKTMG5.SQZ from Lee's TMG Tips site at:
http://www.tmgtips.com/uksrctypes.htm . This is where I am encountering the
problem.

Caroline Gurney
Portsmouth, UK




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