Nate Diller wrote on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:22:01 -0700: > On 7/25/06, Timothy Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > =========================== > > My question > > =========================== > > How should directory mime types be recorded? > > What is the standard? > > there's no standard for this sort of thing, but the Be file system did > this, maybe it's the 'standard' cause no one else has really even > tried. either way, the book about it is *very* worthwhile, and these > days is free > > http://haiku-os.org/downloads.php?mode=view_dl&id=7
Apple developed their own file typing system. It's more of a class hierarchy than MIME types. Have a look at "Uniform Type Identifiers", a good description is at http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/11 Maybe there's a standard cluster of UTIs there for containers, like directories. By the way BeOS had directories identified with a MIME type of application/x-vnd.Be-directory and there were other ones for disk volumes and the like. - Alex
