If we are going to have the GUI properly deal with ZSAV files we need a mimetype for it. Ben suggested that instead of inventing a new one, we share the existing (unofficial) mimetype for the .SAV files (viz: application/x-spss-sav )
After thinking about it, this makes sense to me because: 1. New unofficial mimetypes are discouraged: See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648 2. Both can be opened by pspp/psppire 3. They contain EXACTLY the same information (just formatted in a different way) The only cavaets are: 1. We cannot then have a separate icon for .zsav files ; the OS will treat .sav and .zsav as (conceptually) identical. 2. Older psppire versions will attempt to open zsav files if somebody clicks on one, but the attempt will fail. Anyway whichever mimetype we want for .zsav files we need to update the database by submitting a bug report to http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info/ For completeness it would also be a good idea to get the "file" program recognising them. To do this, we need to send a bug report to the tracker mentioned at http://www.darwinsys.com/file/ J' -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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