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Re: Windows 2000 and MIME Types?
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lugnet.cad
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Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:52:02 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Tim Courtney writes:
> I finally decided to update my MIME types for DAT files on my computer - and I
> can't seem to get to the MIME type setting in Windows 2000. Anyone know how to
> set the mime type to application/x-ldraw? I can't even tell if that is set on
> there or not.
I just installed Win2K, and here's what I did:
First, I ran L3Lab, and did "File | Register File Types | .dat and .mpd".
I believe doing this will tell Windows what to do when it gets a file with
extension .dat (and .mpd). That's great, but some sites seem to serve DAT
content without an extension, so the client (that's you) has to rely
entirely on the mime-encoding information provided by the server.
So, I then ran RegEdit. First, I found the entry for .dat--created, I
guess, by L3Lab registering the file types. Looking at other extension
entries, I figured the .dat key needed a new string value, "Content Type",
with data "application/x-ldraw". So I set that up.
Poking around, I eventually found the key
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/MIME/Database/Content Type. This was the mother-lode.
Under this key, I created a key for application/x-ldraw.
Finally, under the application/x-ldraw key, I created a string value
"Extension", with data ".dat".
To summarize, I added the following keyed-value-data-whatsits to the Registry:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
.dat
Content Type = 'application/x-ldraw'
MIME
Database
Content Type
application/x-ldraw
Extension = '.dat'
Sorry I don't have any fancy graphics to indicate which lines are keys and
which are values.
Steve
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 | | Windows 2000 and MIME Types
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| Hey, does anybody (besides me) use ldglite on Windows 2000? I tried to capture what Steve and Tim worked out on MIME type setup in Win2K for the ldglite README.TXT but I could use some verification that it works. Is anyone willing to try this out (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Windows 2000 and MIME Types?
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| I finally decided to update my MIME types for DAT files on my computer - and I can't seem to get to the MIME type setting in Windows 2000. Anyone know how to set the mime type to application/x-ldraw? I can't even tell if that is set on there or not. (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad)
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