Re: [icon-users] abort on fetch when opening docx file

  • From: Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 11:37:18 +0200

In message <528db51938tim@xxxxxxxxx>
          Tim Hill <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It may not be well known hereabouts but a .docx file is a container: a
> zip file with umpteen xml and other files in it. Dropping a downloaded
> .docx file onto SparkFS will open it up and give it the /correct/ RISC OS
> filetype!  ;-)

I notice the smiley, but since you also emphasized the word "correct", 
let me clarify that doing so gives it an entirely /wrong/ RISC OS 
filetype, so if you have EW/TW 9.0, then dropping a .docx file onto 
SparkFS is not helpful.

Martin
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