In article <381c18b151.zen44...@zen.co.uk>,
   Simon Smith <simon_sm...@zen.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <51b10f8d4cbbai...@argonet.co.uk>
>           Brian Bailey <bbai...@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

> > The above version now downloads latest test build as file format &A91
> > not Archive/zip (ddc) file which won't open.

> a91 is the custom filetype for ZIP, isn't it?

If you say so Simon - personally, I had no idea.  8-)

> Have you updated or altered your mimemap settings recently? Tim Hill
> made a new version available a few days ago.

Indeed that's exactly what I did yesterday and thought that it just might
give me problems. But as you will have observed from my report I didn't
associate the apparent changed behaviour of NetSurf downloads with the
mimemap file.

> Fixes:

> 1) Manually change a91 back to ddc, then things will work as they used to
> (drag and drop onto the SparkFS icon will probably do that automatically)

> This fix will work indefinitely until you have a permanent solution.

> 2) Revert to your previous mimemap

> 3) Update Spark/SparkFS or whatever compression program you use so that
> it associates a91 with zip

> 3) is the 'most correct' of those options. With SparkFS it's reasonably
> straightforward, but you do have to edit the right file. With other
> programs, the execution may be slightly different. Whichever way you do
> it you might have to tweak a boot or a run or a config file somewhere.

> The Spark/SparkFS docs do clearly tell you what setting to adjust.

Many thanks for the information, Simon. I will act on your advice. 

You lives and learns - well, some of the time!


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