[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:36:02AM +0100, Anders S. Andersen wrote:
> Even though my netscape had decompressed the file, and (as you guessed) left
> ghe .gz suffix, the decompressed file could not run (file wrote:
> ethereal-0.8.12-DU40.gz:        COFF format alpha unknown binary type
> executable or object module not stripped - version 11.1-3331). I then
> downloaded it with Microsoft Internet Explorer. It didn't decompress, and
> after a manual decompress with gunzip I now have a executable which can run.

Sounds like Netscrape mangled the file in the process of decompressing
it, or something.  Perhaps it should replace the ".gz" with ".fu", to
indicate what it did to the file....

What version of Netscape are you running?  Perhaps an older version
won't be as buggy.

(If Netscape is screwing up a download, I tend to use "wget"; you may
have to construct the URL, in part, by hand, but at least it's Really
Simple and doesn't try to be "helpful" by decompressing files on the fly
and the like.)