[FX.php List] [OFF] Trouble with clients trying to download DOCX files from web server

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

The zip file downloads and unzips automatically.

Looks like a hexedit file here, as I do not have the new word installed.

I thought ODF was the way to go, not docx.

ggt

2007/12/30, Roger Moffat <rogerkiwi at aol.com>:
>
> On Dec 30, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Bob Patin wrote:
>
> > nah, the client says his customers have to be able to upload in any
> > format, and he doesn't want to force them to ZIP their files...
>
> Now on Safari 3 with Mac OS X 10.4.11 that file will download (I do
> get a warning first from Safari that it doesn't know what the file is
> - am I sure I want to download it) but it won't open on that machine
> as I don't have an application to deal with it.
>
> On Mac OS X 10.5.1 it opened in TextEdit which seemingly in Leopard
> can now deal with .docx files.
>
> Roger
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