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Re: Deploying new versions [Was: Versioning HTML at the server]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A. Lentz)
Mon Oct 31 14:35:43 1994
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 19:02:54 +0100
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From: "Robert A. Lentz" <lentz@annie.astro.nwu.edu>
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> 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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