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Re: [MODEL] Boogie.dat
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Date: 
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 00:14:00 GMT
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Todd Lehman writes:
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpien@NOSPAM.ctp.com> writes:

Well, then I must be seeing things, because I could SWEAR it
used to work that way. The CGI filename is interposed now,
where before it used to be some random
name that ended in .dat...

<snip interesting algorithm guess>

Maybe, but how would it know to choose .dat as an ending? I repeat, that is
what it was doing, OR, I was hallucinating (not out of the realm of
possibility).

++Lar

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(...) Because somewhere on your system there is a mapping: application/x-ldraw -> .DAT or perhaps there is a pair of mappings application/x-ldraw <-> LDLITE.EXE .DAT <-> LDLITE.EXE and the browser is treating them as transitive...? To be sure, there (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)

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(...) I think my browser (Netscape 4.x) is doing the same thing -- but not necessarily in that order -- ldraw.cgi first, then random filenames. Here's the algorithm I believe Netscape is using: - Look for an empty spot to download the file into the (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)

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