Re: Q.: "Open with" dialogues in Android ...

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Subject	Re: Q.: "Open with" dialogues in Android ...
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tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> wrote:
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> But if I try to do a file download of a .mobi file from an author's web
> page, or an .azw file from Amazon.com, using either Browser or Opera Mini,
> the Downloader balks, claiming the file is one it doesn't know how to
> handle. Means even the <user>@kindle.com email attachment way of sending a
> .mobi file to my phone's Kindle app fails, because the attachment never
> downloads. 

  What is this "the Downloader" thing you talk about?

  What you seem to describe would mean that you would not be able to
download a file, any file, which no (installed) app can 'Open', but
which would be quite useful. I.e. a configuration file, a file which is
*used* by and app, but is not *'Open'-ed* by an app.

  IOW, there are lots of files which are not 'Open'ed, but which are
used in some shape of form. Your 'Browser' would not be able to
*download* such a file? Why on earth not? It has no business thinking
the file needs to be 'Open'-ed!

  Can you give an exmple (i.e. URL) of such a (freely downloadable)
file, which your 'Browser'/'Downloader' can't download?

<drift>

> So I'm reduced to the very 20th century solution of sneaker-netting the
> microSD card out of the phone and into a computer to DL the desired
> eBook(s), and than back into the phone to move it/them over to the
> handset's memory where the Kindle app expects to find such things.

  Can't you USB-connect the Android device to your computer or use a
Wi-Fi connection with something such as ES File Explorer?

</drift>

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Q.: "Open with" dialogues in Android ... tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2017-01-06 20:27 -0500
  Re: Q.: "Open with" dialogues in Android ... Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2017-01-07 08:53 +0000
    Re: Q.: "Open with" dialogues in Android ... tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2017-01-07 14:45 -0500
      Re: Q.: "Open with" dialogues in Android ... Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2017-01-07 22:12 +0000
        Re: Q.: "Open with" dialogues in Android ... tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2017-01-08 00:15 -0500
          Re: Q.: "Open with" dialogues in Android ... Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2017-01-08 17:18 +0000
            Re: Q.: "Open with" dialogues in Android ... tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2017-01-08 16:44 -0500
              Re: Q.: "Open with" dialogues in Android ... Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2017-01-08 22:35 +0000
                Re: Q.: "Open with" dialogues in Android ... tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2017-01-08 23:47 -0500
                Re: Q.: "Open with" dialogues in Android ... Kees Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> - 2017-01-09 18:50 +0100
                Re: Q.: "Open with" dialogues in Android ... tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2017-01-10 04:08 -0500
            Re: Q.: "Open with" dialogues in Android ... Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2017-01-09 23:55 +0000
              Re: Q.: "Open with" dialogues in Android ... tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2017-01-10 04:16 -0500

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