Well, it's been a total failure

[Nick Sabalausky]

"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.