Re: Auto-Download tags/function?
batie@ibeam.jf.intel.com (Alan Batie)
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Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 20:15:28 +0200
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From: batie@ibeam.jf.intel.com (Alan Batie)
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Subject: Re: Auto-Download tags/function?
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> <A HREF="ftp://host/file.tar.Z" CONTENT-TYPE="application/x-tarZ">
> a tar file</a>
> I still think I was right ;-)
So do I; the protocol has to be told somewhere about such files, and having
a separate control file listing "this file should be handled that way" would
be an administrative nightmare. I don't know of another way to handle the
situation, but the current way is, putting it very mildly, undesirable.
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