[oclug] tax online & netscape 6 download

[Vic Gedris]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Jeff 'Mutt' East wrote:

> 	...mind you at least one requires Win/Mac.  Has anyone used one
> 	successfully yet?

I've never done taxes online, but you might be able to set your
browser's User Agent to foll the website into thinking that you're using
an "appropriate" platform.  I know Konqueror can do that, and I think
Mozilla can too.  And then you can email the webmaster to tell them to
be less restrictive.  :-)

> 	I seem to need Netscape 6 (have 4.73) to use the ufile one, but over
> 	my 28.8 connections, Freenet always cuts me off before it's damn
> 	installer completes the download (70 minutes).  Is there *any way*
> 	to use a resumeable method to get N6?

I use this little script to download Mozilla nightlies every once in a
while:

#!/bin/sh
DAILY=http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
FILE=mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
rm $FILE-2
cp $FILE-1 $FILE-2
rm $FILE-1
cp $FILE $FILE-1
rm $FILE
wget $DAILY

Notice it also creates backups of the old nightlies incase a new one is
broken.  :-)  Hmm...but that doesn't help you with you problem.  Well,
with 'wget' you can tell it to resume downloads.  You may need to find
an FTP url instead of the HTTP one I'm using above...

> [sorry about the word wrap - I'm not used to making paragraphs in
> vim...]

Try this when you're in VIM typing email:
:set ft=mail
:set textwidth=72

It will do proper mail-style formatting and word wrap.  Oh, and of
course:
:nmap <C-J> vipgq
If you want PICO-style ctrl-j paragraph reformatting.

You'll probably want to put this in your ~/.vimrc

Cheers,
Vic

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