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Re: Using Excel as helper application
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon P. Knight)
Fri Jan 27 11:40:06 1995
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 16:51:19 +0100
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From: "Jon P. Knight" <J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk>
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On Fri, 27 Jan 1995, Hans de Wolf wrote:
> What happens is that if the user clicks on the icon the file spreadsheet.xls
> is loaded, but Netscape does not start Excel, but shows the spreadsheet
> as a lot of garbage text.
You've got the client set up ok, but I bet your server is attaching a MIME
type of text/plain to the document when it transfers it. Try adding
application/x-excel with the file extension .xls to the list of
filename->MIME type mappings that your server uses. The server docs tell
you how to do this (with the NCSA httpd, you can edit a file called
mime.types in the conf directory)
Jon
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