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- Um, I've been playing with various ways of getting postscript to display
- via XMosaic (1.0). When you use FTP, things are fine, because the FTP daemon
- doesn't do any processing, and so when XMosaic hands off to Ghostview or
- whatever, life is fine.
-
- However, when HTTP processes the file, it puts the line :
-
- <PLAINTEXT>
-
- in front of the rest of the document. Thus, when it gets back to Ghostview,
- it chokes because <PLAINTEXT> is invalid PS. This may again get us to the
- point of needing "type tags" for different types of files, but with the
- coming various "multi-media" browsers, it seems to me to be a problem we
- need to solve somehow (perhaps the URLs will help, but I don't think they
- are the ultimate solution).
-
- I can just set up a filter for Ghostscript which removes the offending
- line, but is there a better solution?
-
- Thanks, <Mowgli>
-