Re: Deploying new versions [Was: Versioning HTML at the server]

Robert A. Lentz (lentz@annie.astro.nwu.edu)
Mon, 31 Oct 1994 18:55:35 +0100

> It would be nice if you could just have a single file to specify the
> mappings for all browsers, mailers, etc as on UNIX platforms. Of course,
> these application should still provide the user with nice interfaces for
> editing the MIME information.

Actually we have been talking about something like this on the Mac side for
quite a while, and things are currently afoot. It is not a file, but a way
to query a system-wide database, and it is for more than just MIME mapping
(email address, news server, etc.).

-Robert

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