Re: Application/octet stream - Thanks

2009-06-20 Thread Thomas H. George
It is a photo and gimp opened it with no trouble - Thanks for suggesting this. I was fixated on seeing it as an iceape problem. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Application/octet stream

2009-06-20 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Thomas H. George ha scritto: A friend sent me an email with an attachment I can't view - probably some Windoze format. Iceape says it is a type application/octet stream. I thought I had installed all the available plugins. What must I find to view the picture? Tom $ aptitude show file $ f

Re: Application/octet stream

2009-06-20 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 09:22 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: A friend sent me an email with an attachment I can't view - probably some Windoze format. Iceape says it is a type application/octet stream. Could you tell us the file extension? /tony -- http://www.baldwinsoftware.com free/open

Re: Application/octet stream

2009-06-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 09:22 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > A friend sent me an email with an attachment I can't view - probably > some Windoze format. Iceape says it is a type application/octet stream. application/octet-stream is a generic mime type which means "The content is something I