Well, it's been a total failure

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-09-15 21:48, 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.

I'm pretty sure HFS+ (Mac OS X) has some type of metadata in the file 
system.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg