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James wrote:
| At 11:39 am +0100 23/8/01, Phil Taylor wrote:
|
| >The .abc extension is correct, and should work fine with ABCWin.
| >Your files certainly work OK with BarFly. One possibility is that the
| >server is (correctly) serving the files using the mime type text/vnd.abc,
| >and the user's browser doesn't understand that, and is saving the file
| >in some odd format which ABCWin doesn't understand.
|
| No, it's actually serving up MIME type text/plain. Perhaps Nigel can
| persuade his ISP to update the list of MIME types on the server.
|
| Incidentally, I added extension .abc and mime-type text/plain to my
| 'file helper settings' in IE (Mac) and Nigel's site now works
| properly for me. The tunes pop up in Barfly.
So that probably means that if we put plain text files on
our web sites, they will be music to your ears. Or at least
to your browser.
I wonder what this message would sound like if played by an
ABC player?
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