On Friday 31 August 2001  7:14 pm, Andrew Gillham wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 06:42:44PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > Firstly, I downloaded the 'scrambled' and gzipped binary:
> >
> > http://www.roadsign.com/dc/netbsd_bin.gz.bin
> >
> > (you may have to rename this - I don't understand why they have named it
> > in this way - to netbsd_bin.gz before you unzip it).
>
> That is to make sure it gets downloaded as a binary file, not gunzipped by
> the browser, etc.  The .bin should cause the MIME type to be octet-stream.
> If you have a better idea, I can change my page.
>
> -Andrew

At least now I know! As a Unix/Linux/BSD newbie I found it a bit confusing at 
first - ie was I doing it all wrong?

(A line of HTML may help thickos like me understand first time round). Or 
else put it on an ftp site?