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Re: Publishing DAT files (was Re: B-Wing DAT file)
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Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:11:03 GMT
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Paul Gyugyi <paul@gyugyi.com> writes:

To put this thread back on charter, what is the best way to
publish Ldraw .dat files?   On my system, I have associated
.dat files with the program ldlite and with the mime type of
"application/x-ldraw".  If someone posted a .dat file with
that mime type, I *think* that when I read the article then
ldlite would pop up semi-automatically, which would be
really cool.  For those of you with perhaps more experience
doing the MIME thing with enclosures and all that, does this
sound like a good idea?

Neat idea! -- (Except all MIME posts are rejected by this newsserver...)

Alternatively, would it be useful if there were a special area on the www part
of the server for uploading .dat files, and having it index them and serve
them back as "application/x-ldraw"?

--Todd



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  Re: Publishing DAT files (was Re: B-Wing DAT file)
 
(...) That sounds like an interesting idea, Todd. Give it a shot. I would like to try it. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)
  Re: Publishing DAT files (was Re: B-Wing DAT file)
 
(...) Er, waitaminute -- I take it back -- I wrote that code which rejects MIME messages, and -- duh -- it'd be easy to let it allow in "application/x- ldraw" while still rejecting other MIME types. Does the MIME'ing of these convert the .dat file (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)

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  Publishing DAT files (was Re: B-Wing DAT file)
 
To put this thread back on charter, what is the best way to publish Ldraw .dat files? On my system, I have associated .dat files with the program ldlite and with the mime type of "application/x-ldraw". If someone posted a .dat file with that mime (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)

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