Request for more help with server setup:
Phil Taylor and Richard Robinson both suggested that each user's browser
needs to be set up with the abc MIME type in order to view abc files.
However, I have never had to do that, and obviously it would be a
disadvantage to the general success of abc notation, if every user had to
do that with every new browser they installed.
For example, the exact same browsers, running on the exact same machine (my
home Win 98 machine), do not behave this way at all when I go to abc files
at my old web site (on a university-run Unix server) or any of the other
abc sites linked to from Chris Walshaw's mega-index. I've now confirmed
this behavior with Navigator 4.08, Navigator 3.04, Internet Explorer 5.0,
and Lynx 2.8.3.
I suspect this is an issue particular to NT servers (blasted Microsoft!) -
does anyone out there have a successful NT server setup for abc? If so,
please drop me a line.
Maybe there's something more specific I need to tell the sysadmin about how
to set up the abc MIME type? I told him "text/vnd.abc" and that is indeed
what Navigator 4.08 tells me that the NT server is trying to give me (and
needs a special plug-in). Interestingly, Lynx reveals that this NT server
(with the registered MIME type) is sending the file as
"application/octet-stream".
Internet Explorer, by the way, accepts the .abc file, opening it in
NotePad, which is how I've got my Win98 set up to handle local abc files.
But that's not what I want the stupid browser to do. I want it to show it
in the browser as plain text like every other normal browser does
(double-blasted Microsoft!!).
Alan Ng
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