Well, it's been a total failure

[KennyTM~]

On Sep 16, 10 04:35, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
> 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

Please don't confuse Unix with a distro.