[DSP-10] DSP-10 java gui problems

[David Gallatin]

I had thought this was a well known IE problem, but I guess not.
As I recall the solution is to use FTP instead of HHTP to
download. 



--- "Andrew T. Flowers, K0SM" <aflowers at frontiernet.net> wrote:

> Some of you had trouble executing the java .jar file.  I'll
> try not to 
> let this get into a MS rampage, but I find this rather
> unbelievable....
> 
> So I get a bunch of emails saying, "I downloaded your zip
> file, but I 
> don't see any jar".  I didn't know what to make of this until
> Rick, 
> VE3CVG pointed this out. 
> 
> The file I put on the website is called "dsp10controller.jar" 
> NOT 
> "dsp10controller.zip".  If you download it with IE however, it
> renames 
> the file with the .zip extension!  There's no way around it as
> far as I 
> can tell.  Even if you rename it on once it is downloaded to
> your local 
> machine something has become corrupted such that it cannot
> execute with 
> the JRE.  Yes, I know that a .jar file is really a .zip file
> with an 
> embedded manifest file that points the JRE where to start to
> the 
> program, so it's really not all that different. 
> Unfortunately, whatever 
> IE does to it munges that information enough to make it
> unusable.  The 
> only possible reason for this behavior that I can think of is
> that maybe 
> renaming the file to .zip makes it more likely that the user's
> virus 
> scanner will look at it for possible viruses (most don't know
> to look at 
> .jar, .gz, .arj and other compressed formats).  The fact that
> IE gives 
> you no warning whatsoever that it is making this alteration
> confounds me.
> 
> In the meantime, try downloading with a different browser, or
> if you 
> have none, I will happily send you the jar by email....I don't
> know if 
> Outlook will do the same thing to it though. You do need the
> latest 
> version of java--1.4.2 won't execute it right now.  I'll
> probably make 
> it backward compatible at a later date.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback so far!
> Andy K0SM/2
>  
> 
> 
> 
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