On 17 Apr 2002, at 13:51, Kenneth Kuhlmann wrote: > The WIN_NT_4 and WIN_2000 OS's recognise the text after the -last- period as > the file extension *pdf* and correctly associate the file with the required > Acrobat program on each system. My theory is that IE 5.5 (perhaps to > maintain compatibility with older DOS/WIN conventions) uses the text after > the -first- period, ie *WinK...*, as the extension and fails to make an > association with any reader program. Hence it fails to download the file > and displays an icon indicating that the file is unavailable. As other > listers have indicated, if Acrobat Reader is started first and the file is > opened using the File menu then the document should open correctly because > the program does not need to detect and act upon the extension. On other > platforms (Apple?) and different software installations IE may behave > differently but equally unsatisfactorily.
No, that can't be the explanation, as otherwise, the ILOVEYOU worm and its ilk would never have propagated itself (i.e., and attachment with two extensions, e.g., AttachedFile.txt.vbs). All versions of Windows that support long filenames have always used the final extension as the one to determine file type. I still use Win95 and I just tested it with a PDF file and it worked fine. I also tested if the browser plugin works properly, loading it from the file system, and it did work. I do not know what might be causing the problem, unless it's the MIME type that the web server is sending. As I don't have the URL in question I can't check the headers to see. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
