On Sep 16, 10 04:35, "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.
Jerome
Please don't confuse Unix with a distro.
