Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:35:27 +0200, Jérôme M. Berger wrote: > 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.
Unix tools?
