On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Larsen wrote:
> Howdy.
>
> Red Hat is the only Linux distribution I've ever tried that shipped with
> a crippled browser. In fact, it's the only *OS* I've ever tried that
> shipped with a crippled browser. What do I have to do to make
> Communicator (4.04) as shipped with Red Hat 5.0 *download* files with
> extensions like "rpm", "tgz", "gz", "tar", etc., instead of *displaying
> binary garbage in the browser window*?
>
> I've been to Netscape's online support pages, run (quickly) through the
> Netscape news groups, checked the Red Hat mailing list archives, tried
> viewing the contents of the browser "Help" menu (but that just crashed
> the whole browser), everything I can think of. It would appear I'm the
> only person on the planet that's ever had this problem.
>
> I suspect a mime-types problem, but I don't "get" the raw file, and I
> don't "get" the interface Netscape's "Preferences | Navigator |
> Applications" presents, since you'd have to understand mime types to use
> it anyway. Why isn't there something that says, "if this extension,
> download" (well, the Applications preferences implies that that's the
> case, but I don't "get" the "x-application-*" stuff, so it's way too
> granular for me)?
>
> Can anyone help a !mime type? TIA.
>
Here is my .mime.types file you could just cp it to you home dir
or in netscape: edit preferences Navigator Applications new, then put into
Despription: Redhat Packetmanager file ( or however you want to call it)
under MIMEType: application/rpm
under Suffixes: rpm
This works for me
Clemens
#--Netscape Communications Corporation MIME Information
#Do not delete the above line. It is used to identify the file type.
#
#mime types added by Netscape Helper
type=application/postscript \
desc="Postscript Document" \
exts="ai,eps,ps"
#mime types added by Netscape Helper
type=application/pdf \
desc="Portable Document Format" \
exts="pdf"
#mime types added by Netscape Helper
type=application/rpm \
desc="RedHatPackageManager-file" \
exts="rpm"
#mime types added by Netscape Helper
type=application/tar \
desc="Tared Zipped -file" \
exts="tgz"
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