Hello!
I send this in an attempt to be helpful, not to be a giant pain in
the arse, which is sometimes difficult to distinguish in email :-)
Someone pointed out to me today that Opera for Mac OS X could not
download ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.6/LyX:Mac-1.3.6.dmg
I spotted what I assumed was the problem: a colon in the filename (it
is, and a bug report has been filed).
That said, on a Mac system, a : is used to distinguish folders in a
path (instead of the "/" every other Un*x system uses.... yes, it's
annoying, but true)
I tried the "What do other browsers do?" test:
1) Safari: Sent the URL to Finder, which mounted the FTP site and
changed the : to a / which, quite frankly, I wish it had just changed
it to a "-" or "_"
2) Firefox offered to download the file, but then silently failed
(file never goes to downloads list and is not downloaded).
3) OmniWeb seemed unable to connect to the FTP server, even when
other browsers could
4) lynx -dump 'ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.6/LyX:Mac-1.3.6.dmg'
> 'LyX:Mac-1.3.6.dmg' produces a zero byte file
5) lynx -dump 'ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.6/LyX:Mac-1.3.6.dmg'
showed the bytes of the DMG on the screen :-/
6) 'wget 'ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.6/LyX:Mac-1.3.6.dmg'
failed (hung at "RETR LyX:Mac-1.3.6.dmg")
All of which is to say that it will be very difficult if not
impossible for Mac users to download that file, and I wonder if you
might consider renaming the file to something more compatible such as
"LyX-Mac-1.3.6.dmg" ?
Thanks for your time & consideration
TjL
