On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 07:59:16 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:

> Hi List buddies.

> I'm having trouble with downloading this file

> http://www.natrailmuseum.org.au/news/SH_Book_Sale.doc

> which I am assured is a standard word document. But when Arachne
> downloads it, it then gives me the DOS error message "Bad command or
> filename" and starts downloading it again.

> The webmaster says that he has no trouble with it using IE or Opera,
> naturally both are running under a late version of Windoze.

> I suspect the file is trying to start MS-Word, which of course i don't
> have on my computer.

> If anyone else can download it successfully, I'd be pleased to know the
> secret, and also what they find in the beginning of the file.

---- in mime.cfg ----
file/.doc          >TXT|c:\\antiword\\antiword.exe $1>$2
application/msword >TXT|c:\\antiword\\antiword.exe $1>$2
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Do you have AntiWord ?


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