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- >If I wish to retrieve the document, say to view it, I might want to
- >choose the available representation that is most appropriate for my
- >purpose. Imagine my dismay to retrieve a 50 megabyte postscript file
- >from an anonymous FTP archive, only to discover that it is in the
- >newly announced Postscript level 4 format, or to try to edit it only
- >to discover that it is in the (upwardly compatible but not parsable by
- >my client) version 44 of Rich Text. In each case, the appropriateness
- >of alternate sources and representations of a document would depend on
- >information that is currently only available in-band.
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- i think you can avoid this if you make your MIME document descriptor
- in the following way.
- 1- an ascii part containing an abstract for the document and
- describing all the document representations (size, real format...)
- 2- for each representation an external-body ftp part
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- then the mime document itself is very short and after you read
- the ascii part you can decide to transfer( or not )
- only the representation that you want
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