downloading .rev files [was Re: Spell check for Rev?]

[Alex Rice]

On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 09:26  AM, Jim Hurley wrote:
>> http://www.kwinter.ca/wordman.rev
>
> I should know how to deal with this but I don't. How do I translate 
> this Explorer page into a RR file, or even the script as a text file?

This comes up pretty frequently. David's wordman.rev was just a spur of 
the moment thing... so this information is just so people are aware of 
it in general:

If you are putting a .rev file on a webserver, but when people download 
it displays in the browser: it's not the user's fault, or their web 
browser's fault. The fault is the configuration of the web server. The 
web server does not know what mime-type to send with a .rev file.

IF your web server is running Apache (very likely), and the 
configuration allows overrides by users (pretty likely), the solution 
is: create a file named .htaccess (note first character is a ".") Edit 
the file with a text editor in plain text mode. Put the .htaccess file 
into your web folder. Done. This is the .htaccess file I found useful 
on my website:

AddType application/octet-stream dmg
AddType application/octet-stream gz
AddType application/octet-stream rev

Now the user's web browser will not display any of these files types, 
it will just download them to disk.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com