Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "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. > 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
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