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Re: dmg helper

Sivan Mozes
Sun, 07 Oct 2001 20:18:40 -0700

That's obvious enough. What I need to know is how, if at all, can I get 
IE to study the file type from the extension.

While on topic, I noticed types bearing .kar, apparently MIDI, all 
display as garbled text in the pref window.

On Sunday, October 7, 2001, at 08:07  PM, Dan Frakes wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Oct 2001 17:44:59 -0700, Sivan Mozes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I downloaded a straight dmg file with MacIE, and got garbled text in
>> a browser window. I stopped before downloading megabytes more. I
>> looked in prefs, and found no entry for .dmg. I assigned it to be
>> post-processed by DiskCopy (binary encoding) but it keeps opening up
>> in the browser. That particular download has no mime-type header,
>> btw.
>>
>> I think this should be included in shipping MacIE prefs. How should
>> it be done at this point?
>
> This isn't an IE problem -- it's a server configuration problem. The 
> server
> admin doesn't have the server configured properly for dmg files. This 
> can
> also happen for hqx, zip, sit, or any other encoded file type.
>
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