ScreenCam helper setup

Kevin C. Marsh iai at neosoft.com
Wed Mar 6 15:43:34 EST 1996


Hi!  Roy Bennett wrote:

>...Since the demo files have the extension .scm that is the 
>extension I used for the helper application.  I understand that there 
>is some organization that standardizes helper designation extensions.  
>Am I on sound ground to use .scm for the browser helper application?  
>I'm thinking about giving instruction on how to setup the helper app 
>and how to download scplayer.exe.  Thanks.

I think that what you are looking for is the MIME content-type standards.
Take a look at http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc1521.txt

For a simpler explanation you might want to see Ken Jenks page "Recommended
File Formats for WWWDocuments", http://sd-www.jsc.nasa.gov/web_formats.html

Kevin C. Marsh, Executive Director
Information Access Institute
KMarsh at information.org     http://information.org



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