Hello Christopher Browne! On Sat, 1 January 2000 at 02:06:48, you wrote: > > I didn't say "type information."
It's the EA-thingy that frightened me (under OS/2 EA means Extended Attribute) - more precisely - I don't like the idea to record type information somewhere on disk - that's all. Whatever one might do with file type information is a different matter. > But this digresses from the *true* issue. It used to start out with the random idea to have a filesystem translator carry MIME type information and the thread still has the label "Extended attributes". > /etc/mailcap contains correspondences between MIME types and programs to > be used to process those types; *that* is what is being discussed. I see, but that would be of general interest and is not terribly HURDish, so I somewhat neglected all the associated details - I'm sorry for that. Just ignore my little comment. /bye Dirk
