On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:53:13 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> I am really ... I mean *REALLY* ... sick and tired of the problem that
> 1.70r3 has with appending extensions to attached files.
> Yesterday it took me 3 edits just to get a jpg to display; today a
> friend sent pictures of her new ass [donkey, honey bunch ... if I meant
> arse I'd have said arse] and it will be easier for me to shell out &
> rename them, then use the desktop for viewing. :<
> Has anyone even bothered to figure out why sometimes the extension makes
> it to the unattached file, and sometimes it doesn't???
This is 100% dependent upon 2 items matching each other.
1) the mime-type used by the sender.
2) the setting for that mime-type in mime.cfg in the receiving Arachne.
Examples:
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/zbm-fix.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/anything.jpg
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Glenn
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http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
