GURUS: Attachment types - how does this work?

[Philip Rhoades <pri chu com au>]

Hi people,

I am using Balsa 1.4.2 .

Question 1:

I got an Excel spreadsheet from someone and the header had:

Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Bnkjul02.xls";
  x-mac-type="584C5334"; x-mac-creator="5843454C"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Bnkjul02.xls"

When I look at the attachment icon it confirms the 
"application/octet-stream" type and does not recognise it as an Excel 
spreadsheet.

I sent myself an Excel spreadsheet and that header has:

Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="bcs_bcb.xls"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

This is correctly recognised as an Excel spreadsheet and prompts me to 
open it with Star Office.

The first mail was sent with Eudora on Windows the second with Balsa of 
course.

Why is the first not recognised as an Excel spreadsheet?

Question 2:

I didn't get an answer when I posted this before so I'm trying again:  
How can I manually edit Gnome config files (RH 7.3/8.0) to specify 
particular applications (eg xpdf) for particular attachments (eg *.pdf 
files)?  I can't run the Gnome desktop on these user's X terminals.

Thanks,

Phil.
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