'Re: Problem with mimetypes : Readme.html = text file !'

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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Problem with mimetypes : Readme.html = text file !
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () earthlink ! net>
Date:       1999-01-30 7:49:36
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On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, David Faure wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:24:27PM -0500, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
>> Duncan Haldane wrote:
>> 
>> > On 29-Jan-99 David Faure wrote:
>> > > There is a problem with the current patterns in the mimetypes kdelnk.
>> > > Readme.html is recognized as a text file, because english.kdelnk defines
>> > > Patterns=README*;INSTALL*;CHANGE*;*.txt;Readme*;
>> >
>> > AHA that explains it maybe,  --  kfm wouldn't open my
>> > readme-redhat-rpms.html
>> > as a html file!
>> >
>> > duncan
>> > duncan@kde.org
>> 
>> As a curosity, did kfm open it as a text file instead ?  If so, were there
>> some white spaces (CR/LF) before the <HTML> header.
>You're mixing problems. This is about pattern matching to determine the
>mimetype. magic file are only used if no pattern matching succeeded.

I understood the issues you were talking about.  As I said I was just
curious if his problem was related to the other issue.

>>   Try deleting these white
>> space(s), save it, and try launching it again.  I bet, if my hunch is correct
>> and you run into the same problem I did, kfm would correctly open is as an
>> html file.  If this is the case the problem is in the magic files ...
>Isn't this fixed now ?

You are right ! This is fixed in the current version. I was on a week old CVS
snapshot of kfm.  I will eat my words :-)

Dawit A

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