Wondering if anyone knows of a bug filed for Mozilla not being able to
open a text file terminated with a ctrl-z such as E.EXE creates. And
whether to open one.
Dave
ps an example right now is
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Dave Yeo wrote:
Wondering if anyone knows of a bug filed for Mozilla not being able to
open a text file terminated with a ctrl-z such as E.EXE creates. And
whether to open one.
Dave
ps an example right now is

I wondered why sometimes it wouldn't open txt files but never took the
time to figure it out.
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Dave Yeo schrieb:
Wondering if anyone knows of a bug filed for Mozilla not being able to
open a text file terminated with a ctrl-z such as E.EXE creates. And
whether to open one.
Dave
ps an example right now is

Accessing the file via (file://) is possible. Perhaps a problem of
configuration on the webserver?

Andreas Kohl

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Andreas Kohl wrote:
Dave Yeo schrieb:
>Wondering if anyone knows of a bug filed for Mozilla not being able to
>open a text file terminated with a ctrl-z such as E.EXE creates. And
>whether to open one.
>Dave
>ps an example right now is

Accessing the file via (file://) is possible. Perhaps a problem of
configuration on the webserver?

Andreas Kohl

Could be as Mozilla just says that the file is likely to be text/plain.
Does anyone know what tag is needed to set a file to text/plain?
Dave

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Dave Yeo schrieb:
Andreas Kohl wrote:
>Dave Yeo schrieb:
Wondering if anyone knows of a bug filed for Mozilla not being able
to open a text file terminated with a ctrl-z such as E.EXE creates.
And whether to open one.
Dave
ps an example right now is
>>
>Accessing the file via (file://) is possible. Perhaps a problem of
>configuration on the webserver?
>>
>Andreas Kohl

Could be as Mozilla just says that the file is likely to be text/plain.

I don't know how mozilla applications handle extended attributes.

Does anyone know what tag is needed to set a file to text/plain?

The EA entry for text/plain should be in .TYPE.

Regards
Andreas Kohl

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Andreas Kohl wrote:

>Could be as Mozilla just says that the file is likely to be text/plain.

I don't know how mozilla applications handle extended attributes.

MIME type recognition generally has to fall back on less intelligent
mechanisms, like file extension.

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Peter Weilbacher wrote:
Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:03:12 UTC, Dave Yeo wrote:

>Wondering if anyone knows of a bug filed for Mozilla not being able to
>open a text file terminated with a ctrl-z such as E.EXE creates. And
>whether to open one.
>Dave
>ps an example right now is

You should talk to this Dave Yeo who uploaded the file why he is still
using an unpatched version of e.exe. ;-)

Actually some time back I did install the patched version of e.exe.
Unluckily the WPS just uses the old renamed e.exe.bak. Now fixed. :)
Still I do see quite a few of these text files and it would be nice if
they just opened.

I suspect that even if it is advertized as text/plain by the server and
has a .txt extension Mozilla gets suspicous when it finds "binary"
characters in that file. As there are many servers sending text/plain
wrongly, this may be for security reasons. But I didn't find a bug,
either. As a workaround you can enter SeaMonkey (or whatever browser you
are using) in the download dialog, so that it opens in the browser.

Well strictly speaking under any DS like operating system it should
just stop reading the file when coming across a ctrl-z though I notice
that even e.exe doesn't obey this rule. Copy with the /a parametre or
using a text device does honour the ctrl-z
Dave

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