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Re: RFC 1524

Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@innosoft.com> Mon, 23 September 1996 19:48 UTC

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From: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@innosoft.com>
To: Daniel Glazman <Daniel.Glazman@der.edfgdf.fr>
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Subject: Re: RFC 1524
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On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Daniel Glazman wrote:
> 	* make everything reasonnable in order to promote mailcap on other
> 	  systems than Unix

If you can work out a system so it fits in an ACAP dataset (Application
Configuration Access Protocol, currently a work in progress), that would
provide a way to access the same mailcap information as you move from host
to host.

An ACAP dataset is a list of entries, with each entry being made up of a
set of <attribute, value> pairs.  So you could get entries like this:

name="Graphic Interchange Format" media-type=image/gif extension=gif
mac-type=GIFf mac-creator=JVWR unix-helper=xv magic=gif8
Windows-Helper=whatever ...

		- Chris

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