Dear GAP Forum,
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 12:42:02PM +0200, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> Gaunce Lewis <lglewis@syr.edu> writes:
>
> > Dear gap forum
> >
> > Let me offer a slight correction to the claim that IE does not handle gz
> > files like those at
> >
> >
> > http://www.csee.uq.edu.au/~gap/#gap4
> >
> > In fact, IE almost handles them correctly. If you ask IE to download one
>
> ok, it can download them, but that's not the point.

Dear Gaunce,

As Dima said being able to download a gzip-ed file is not the point.
What Netscape, Opera, Lynx and many other browsers are able to do when
served a file of form: <something>.htm.gz (and other similar suffixes)
is to automatically decompress the file and then display it, just as
if it had been served <something>.htm.
Unfortunately, IE doesn't provide this feature.

  Regards,
  Greg Gamble
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