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> So we'd get more accurate Web usage of Plucker if we had a Plucker
> extension.
"Accurate" how? I think that's the piece I'm missing.
d.
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> > Web servers, David, not Web browsers. The file extension is often how
> > they decide what MIME type to send on the stream.
>
> Are you referring to the AddType directive of servers such as
> Apache? That would pre-suppose that a .plkr document on the server side is
> parsed by an inte
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> > > Unfortunately, when it comes to determining the MIME type of a page to
> > > send across the wire, many if not most Web servers are extraordinarily
> > > sensitive to the suffixes on file names.
> > ..which is a handicap, since they should obe
> I guess it's good to have specific support for this in the browsers, but
> for the commoner user, what exactly will he/she see their machine do
> with this .plkr file?
Presumably, when the UNIX viewer is released, it would pop up to
display the document, much as Adobe AcroRead does for PDF docs
> I'd like to amend this to include .plk and .plkr, with .plkr taking
> precedence of course, with the .plk for those braindead platforms that can't
> natively support 4 characters in an extension (most should now anyway, even
> if they ignore the fourth position for operations such as delet
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> But what good really would it do once that's supported?
For us, on Linux/Unix? Nothing..
> I would assume just to upload the file up to the palm, but the hotsync
> program itself only supports pdc, pdb, pqa as valid extensions.
I
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 08:43:03PM -0400, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> pilot-link doesn't have anything to do with the MIME type or HTML
> gathering process of Plucker, it is only concerned with the final created
> .pdb (or .prc/.pqa overall). I would venture to guess that nothing will be
>
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> The Windows Palm stuff requires .prc or .pdb.
That is a Palm limitation, you _can not_ install anything on the
Palm unless it has an extension of .prc, .pdb, or .pqa, currently, unless
you copy it to the external expansion card using anoth
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> Folks, I'd like to suggest we start using a standard extension of .plk for
> Plucker documents.
I'd like to amend this to include .plk and .plkr, with .plkr taking
precedence of course, with the .plk for those braindead platforms that can'
> I could mung the parser a bit to suggest this or add it if no file
> extension is specified, or we could just promote the file extension in
> documentation. Would it cause any problems with syncing software? I
> just use pilot-link, which doesn't seem to care what the extension is,
> so I woul
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