Attached Link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SHADO

I know that warez and crackers are a pest, but the precaution described here is ridiculous!!! On Tuesday 07 Aug 2001 13:27:36 -0000, christensensteve@hotmail.com wrote to the email group which is at this link (it is about the Gerry Anderson "UFO" science fiction series):- **Subject**: My web site Hi all; Well I was able to upload the updated screen savers to my web-site. I also found out why certain files were missing. It appears that FortuneCity has decided that zip files are not allowed on their server. This is to help eliminate cracks, illegal software, etc. Hence thats the reason why my files disappear every now and then. I've tried to replace all that I can and until I can find a fairly cheap Web hosting site, will have to live with it. I have copied most of the UFO files to my geocities site, and it looks like a mirror of the original. The URL is: http://www.geocities.com/christensensteve/ I'll try and update both and keep everyone informed. Thanks; Steve Christensen

Bwap! Err... how about .sit files? Or just renaming .zip to .stuff and letting the user rename it back again?

Hi, You'd need to rename them to something that the browser won't mistake for text, .sit or .bin (or even .exe) would do. The problem comes if the browser thinks it's downloading text, at which point it does an ASCII transfer, (downloading the file as a collection of 8bit bytes) as opposed to a binary file (a continuous binary "octet" stream) at which point your download is toast once you rename it and try to decompress it. It's the same as downloading a binary file as ASCII via ftp, it screws your data up royally... later jb

If binary is transmitted as ASCII, the corruption comes from it adding or removing ascii 13 (CR, carriage-return) and/or ascii 10 (LF, line-feed) codes.

Registered version of WinZip (I think about $12) lets you convert Zip files to EXE files. Just a thought.

For freestuff here, the link must be ZIP or SIT. No EXE allowed...

Our firewall at work is blocking .exe, as is the antivirus software on Exchange. We require our users to use zip/sit/whatever to transfer files, though you can slip image files through. Too many bad bugs out there right now. I think the .zip ZAP is a bad idea, and guess I'd have to find another host. Somewhere. GrayMare

What would happen if you renamed e.g. zxcvbnm.zip as zxcvbnm.jpg ? It might make your Netscape or Internet Explorer 's graphics displayer blaspheme, but if it survived without crashing, would it let you download the file?

Hi, I don't see why not, but you'd have to "save target as" to get it to work properly. Having said that, I think I've downloaded a zip like that before, (meaning the browser has screwed up and "displayed" the file as text, but it has saved properly from the "save as..." file menu YMMV later jb

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Blasphemious suggestion... What about getting DropStuff for Windows? It is $30 Shareware, but it creates *real* .sit files, which are (typically) 80% the size of a .zip archive. This way you avoid the .zip block *and* you save 20%webspace *and* download time for your users. Just a suggestion... :-)