Re: [icon-users] RISC OS file type for docx

  • From: ralph_valmai@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 11:23:05 +0100

In message <6a99928952.ricp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Richard Porter <ricp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2 May 2012 Chris Newman  wrote:

>> In article <5c68778952.ricp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>    Richard Porter <ricp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 1 May 2012 John Rickman Iyonix  wrote:

>>>> What is the correct RISC OS file type for a  docx file?

>>> &a7e (MSWordX)

>> My Miememap has just a7e. Is the "&" irrelevant?

> Not irrelevant but possibly superfluous - it just indicates that what
> follows is hexadecimal. It may or may not be required depending on
> what interface you are talking about. I could have given the filetype
> as 2686.

> Fwiw my MimeMap entry is:

> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
> MSWordX a7e .docx

I decided that it was worth putting this into my MimeMap file. My 
`WhereIs' file (made by me a few years ago) gives it as being in 
!Boot.Resources.!internet.files. I can't get into !internet to make 
change, presumable because it is an application. Can someone enlighten 
me how to do it?

TIA

Ralph




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