Re: Mime-types


Subject: Re: Mime-types
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 17:56:18 CST


On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
<snip>
>
> The second is the label to give to the output files that abiword
> produces. Since the files are textual, and the text category
> is a valid place for our files, I would suggest text/abiword as
> the content type for the files.
>
> Thus this mapping results in telling the system that text/abiword
> (or really just text/*) files are handled by the type identified
> as application/vnd.abisuite.abiword.
>

Can we register gzipped abiword format too? The gzipped version is over an
order of magnitude smaller and is ideal for emailing to people. It is fun
to receive a 40 kb Word doc, import it into Abi and save it as a 3 kb
gizpped format, with no loss of information :-)

Martin



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