"Jonathan M Davis" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > 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.
