On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 23:15, Yuri de Groot wrote:
> What is the suffix? .gz? .rpm? .tz? .Z? .zip? .tar.gz? .tar? .deb? <rant> This just highlights one of the weaknesses of the raw file system, one that the macintosh tried to 'fix' by having a resource fork for each file that describes what it is. I'm unsure which is worse. 1) A .XXX filename extension that is meant to describe what the file is, but completely fails to indicate which applications can use it, or what to do with it. (Windoze) 2) Nothing. (*NIX) The most reliable way to tell what a file is, is to use file(1) on it. Even that messes up from time to time, and is intolerably slow on large directories. It'd be nice if there was a mime type associated with every file. </rant> rEx
