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Does it matter what browser I use to download the FTP data?

Notes on various WWW-browsers
Note: Each of the file links displayed for downloading files is an ftp link. It is possible that the
browser will not understand the file type referenced in the this link, and as such, will try to render
it as text. In order to prevent this from occurring, you have the choices listed below:

a) Right-click (or option|click if on a Mac) on the link. This will display the option menu. Select
the 'Save Link As...' option from this menu. This should popup a 'Save As...' dialog box allowing
to you to save the science file to your disk.

b) If you're using Netscape, set a helper type in your browser preferences. This will allow you to
click normally on these links and get the 'Save As...' dialog.
From the 'Edit' menu, select 'Preferences'. This will display the 'Netscape: Preferences' dialog.
From the nested-list on the left of the dialog, select 'Navigator' and then 'Applications'. On the
right-hand side of the dialog, a list of application helpers should be displayed along with some
controls at the bottom ('New', 'Edit', 'Delete').
Select 'New'. This will produce a 'Netscape: Application' dialog with a listing of field names
('Description','MIMEType',etc.). Simply fill in the fields on this dialog as listed below:
Description: DataPool Files
MIMEType: application/ftp
Suffixes: hdf,hdfeos,eds,xml,dpl,r10
Handled By: select 'Unknown:PromptUser'

c) If you're using Internet Explorer, you shouldn't have this problem if you use Version 5.5 or
greater. If you are using an older version, you should upgrade it.

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