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by **wozzar** » Sat 30 Nov, 2002 3:42 pm

I am trying to download a file called the Trg trainer from this url http://www.rct2.com/download/pafiledb.p ... file&id=11
When i click the download button i then get all these funny characters. I have contacted the web master and he thinks its a msi extension and is displayable in my web browser! How can i fix this problem.

http://www.rct2.com/download/uploads/TRGv0.9.msi

This is the funny characters i get when i try to download this file.

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UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (CK-SillyDog)

by **Shark Daddy** » Sat 30 Nov, 2002 6:06 pm

MSI? sounds like a job for IE.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021123

by **wozzar** » Sat 30 Nov, 2002 10:14 pm

Shark Daddy wrote:MSI? sounds like a job for IE.

I did get the file in the end. When i got the page with the characters i saved it then i had the file. But i would like to know why i cant download this file normaly. It did download normaly in IE. Very strange.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (CK-SillyDog)

by **DJGM** » Sun 01 Dec, 2002 12:50 am

As far as I'm aware, the *.msi file extension stands for Microsoft Installer.
It is really nothing more a proprietary executable file, that is made to run
only on Microsoft Windows. As for downloading this type of file, I'm not
at all surprised that there would be no problem retreiving it with MSIE.
Although, I think you should have no problems downloading this kind
of executable file with Netscape and/or Mozilla, provided you right
click (or context click) the file link, and "Save Link Target As..."

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

by **Fulvio** » Sun 01 Dec, 2002 3:08 am

wozzar wrote:
Shark Daddy wrote:MSI? sounds like a job for IE.

I did get the file in the end. When i got the page with the characters i saved it then i had the file. But i would like to know why i cant download this file normaly. It did download normaly in IE. Very strange.

Downloading is one thing, installing is another. And, you were trying to open the file. That's a third thing. Follow DJGM's advice.
I wonder why I was seeing a page, at least, three times wider than my screen? Although the reply looks fine.

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by **Antony** » Mon 02 Dec, 2002 7:53 am

I would have to agree with DJGM.
However it might also be the server issue, and if you can download other files (such as *.zip) correctly with MSIE but Netscape, please report this problem to the webmaster of that site.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

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