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Re:The Perils of File Typing by layer8 on Sunday December 06, 2020 @12:19PM (#25324900)
The GP intended $ACTUALMIMETYPE to be read as a variable — there is no $ after replacement.
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Re:The Perils of File Typing by ancarda on Sunday December 06, 2020 @12:38PM (#25325058)
Oh silly me, of course. I thought perhaps $ denoted the end of a filename and the start of the contents in Zip. I don't know much about that format.
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