how do you download games on the internet
Gordon Bulmer
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> Lately, I have been trying several times to download games and I wasn't very
> succesfull, my server told me I have to download a WinZip file to download a
> Zip game or file, and like the games, I had trouble with it, I got some error
> message. Finally I saved the WinZip file, now how do I retrieve this file,
> each time I go to open file, I click on WinZip and I get a message asking
> whether I want to save it to disk, cancel the transaction or configure a
> viewer, I've already saved the file to disk and I don't know what configure a
> viewer means so I had to cancel the transaction. What's the problem, help
> me, anyone, help! This thing is frustrating, I'm a 'newbie'.
Ok, let me see if I can help, what you seem to want to do is download the
zipped file of the game......now what netscape is asking you is do you want
to set up an application so that it when it sees a file ending in "zip" it
knows what to run. Now the thing is with zip files you do not want to unzip
them on the fly......you want to save the file to your hard drive every time
and then later upzip it. So what you need to do is go into your netscape
preferences and set it up so that every time you click on a file that ends in
ZIP netscape will automaticaly download the file and not ask you what to do.
OK so go to the netscape preferences (if you have netscape 2) look under
general preferences (under the options menu), click on the tab for helps,
near the bottom of the screen that comes up will be a line "file extensions"
with a place to type. Type in the extension zip, and just under that is
choices of action, click on the one "save to disk". You have now told
netscape that for all files ending in zip you what it to save them not try to
run them. You do not need to set up a helper app for this.
Let me know if this helps
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Franky SF
>
> Lately, I have been trying several times to download games and I wasn't very
> succesfull, my server told me I have to download a WinZip file to download a
> Zip game or file, and like the games, I had trouble with it, I got some error
> message. Finally I saved the WinZip file, now how do I retrieve this file,
> each time I go to open file, I click on WinZip and I get a message asking
> whether I want to save it to disk, cancel the transaction or configure a
> viewer, I've already saved the file to disk and I don't know what configure a
> viewer means so I had to cancel the transaction. What's the problem, help
Likely on the OPTIONS - General Preferences- Helpers
And download PKZIP.EXE to unzip those thing
Happy trying !!
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