Using Web Explorer's ftp Capabilities for .exe Files

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Last update: 6th November, 1995

Symptoms
When Using Web Explorer with an ftp URL .exe files do not get transferred as binary

Hardware
Any environment supporting Web Explorer.

Problem
..exe is not a valid mime (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (RFC 1521)) extension and may not be treated as you expect by Web Explorer. You may wish to have this file transferred in the same way that .zip files are transferred and saved locally.

Procedure
Edit your EXPLORE.INI file

find the line with this:

extmap=

modify it to look like this:

extmap=d:\tcpip\etc\extmap.txt (place your drive instead of d:)

Then make a file called extmap.txt in that particular directory and put this in there:

application/octet-stream  exe bin mid arj lha lhz text/plain                txt ini package