On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Robert E. Blair wrote:

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> I have been lately quite annoyed by the fact that sometimes (not always)
> the new versions of powerpoint files (.pptx ones) do not cause
> openoffice to come up.  You often need to save the file and then open it
> locally.  It just dawned on my why.  Many (ours included) web servers do
> not have pptx in the /etc/mime.types file so the files are not properly
> labeled as powerpoint.  I believe that adding the following to the
> /etc/mime.types file of our web servers will fix it:
> change: application/vnd.ms-powerpoint          ppt
> instead it should read: application/vnd.ms-powerpoint          ppt pptx
>
> Similar changes are needed for doc->doc docx
> and for xls->xls xlsx
>
> Without this the web server identifies the files as binary and a browser
> that respects this simply allows you to download and not to open the
> file.  It would be great if TUV would incorporate this into future
> releases of the mailcap rpm.

I hadn't realized that OpenOffice.org 2.x supported those formats.

I wonder whether they made that change when they released
OpenOffice.org 3.1
   https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0274.html
(and/or RH Enterprise Linux 5.5) ?

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