Well, it's been a total failure

"Jérôme M. Berger" jeberger at free.fr
Wed Sep 15 13:35:27 PDT 2010


Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.225.1284568096.858.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>> If you're on a non-Windows system, the mime-type becomes far more 
>> important than
>> the extension. Most programs in Linux (and I believe MacOS X as well) 
>> don't care
>> about the extension. They just look at the mime type. Extensions become 
>> almost
>> entirely a thing for the user. So, whether your file is useable becomes 
>> more of
>> an issue of known mime type than known extension. Still, you don't 
>> generally
>> want to just be making up extensions.
>>
> 
> I didn't think unix file systems had a concept of mime type.
> 
	It doesn't, but Unix tools use the file contents to determine the
mime type and then choose the app associated to the mime type.

		Jerome
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