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[tom]

On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 12:13 -0500, John Vivirito wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > Just saw that dapper flight 6 is available for download (thanks to this
> > list). But when I click on the dapper-install-i386.iso.torrent file, the
> > browser prompts for saving the iso file. I saw the same behaviour with
> > wget. Has anyone noticed this problem? Or am I doing something wrong?
> > 
> > Regards,
> 
> 
> I have seen this alot in past few days and im thinking is that everyone expects it to download as a torrent (with the bittorrent app) i havent personally used a bittorrent in a while but i thought they took like 30 secs to download than when you open it with the bittorrent app it would connect and start downloading. 
> 

Usually the first thing that happens is that the browser is doing is
prompting you to save the TORRENT not the iso.  

When you double click on the torrent you are THEN prompted for where to
save the iso.

Try it again and see if this is not so.  Usually i save the torrents to
my desktop.

Tom