(This bug imported from BugSplat, Netscape's internal bugsystem. It was known there as bug #70202 http://scopus.netscape.com/bugsplat/show_bug.cgi?id=70202 Imported into Bugzilla on 06/04/99 12:16) text/plain is being passed to SimpleText. The Applications preference does not permit me to select "Navigator internal" (although that's what's shows up in the list); the default setting is "Unknown; prompt user"; and the setting is ignored in any event--I tried telling it to pass it to Emacs instead (since SimpleText can't handle anything over 32K), and it was still passed to SimpleText. This is unacceptable because (a) SimpleText cannot handle files over 32K, and (b) SimpleText does not handle bare LFs (it expects files to be in Mac format, with bare CRs). I believe this was with the released PR5.

Using the 6/4 build, I can set the helper for text/plain to be BBEdit. Perhaps you are seeing the result of munged preferences. Could you try this with a clean install? I don't know why you can't set Navigator internal, but I think that is the subject of another bug, should you care to file it. This one is... resolved as worksforme

I seriously doubt it was a munged prefs file, since I was running with a brand-new user profile created just that day, with that same version of Communicator.

I've still been seeing this happen, but only sometimes, and I finally figured out the difference: with http: URLs, it works fine; with ftp: URLs, it spawns off SimpleText. I see it regularly because the IETF stores RFCs and Drafts on FTP sites instead of Web servers. This leads to the same problems I mentioned before (no files over 32K, and it doesn't recognize \n). This is in 4.04.

Steve ...

I don't think the ftp code can really pick up a mime encoding type from an ftp server but it sounds like the default ftp handling for a text type file isn't necessarily what we want. The initial place to look is msv2dsk.cp. Scott, more pain.

Changing TFV to 5.0. ------- Additional Comments From paulmac Jun-04-1999 11:34 ------- marking resolved won't fix in old codebase - I will check this in seamonkey once ftp is up to speed on Mac

mid-air collision ? / bugzilla cleanup Reopening (current State: resolved and no resolution)

wontfix

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