Re: Mime-types


Subject: Re: Mime-types
From: WJCarpenter (bill-abisource@carpenter.ORG)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 18:20:48 CST


ms> Can we register gzipped abiword format too? The gzipped version is

Yes, that was actually my (silent) plan.

ms> people. It is fun to receive a 40 kb Word doc, import it into Abi
ms> and save it as a 3 kb gizpped format, with no loss of information

I would try this experiment, but I don't believe anyone has ever sent
me a Word doc as small as 40 kb. :-)

(Actually, the real culprit is Excel spreadsheets, which seem to have
a minimum bulk of a couple megs. If we had an importer that converted
and Excel spreadsheet into a static table in AbiWord, well, I could
start renting out my extra disk space.)

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