[eug-lug]Associating Files
Greetings All, I'm trying to figure out how to associate certain file types with certain apps...like Kuickshow with .jpgs and XMMS with .pls files. I know it can't be that hard, I'm just not looking in the right place. If anyone knows of a site that explains how I'd be mucho appreciative. ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
[eug-lug]Ignore My Last Post If You Want
Greetings and Hallucinations all, Big dummy me did some poking around and found Edit File TypeIt's always better to answer your own Q's, some people call it learning! Now I've got to figure out why my sig isn't working in KMailit shows as being a .txt fileshould it be a .sig? Dunno, gots to explore some more! Nyal R. Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
Re: [eug-lug]Associating Files
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 06:03:25AM -0800, nyal wrote: Greetings All, I'm trying to figure out how to associate certain file types with certain apps...like Kuickshow with .jpgs and XMMS with .pls files. I know it can't be that hard, I'm just not looking in the right place. If anyone knows of a site that explains how I'd be mucho appreciative. For what? You think this is integrated? The beauty of X11 is that you must configure each and every little thing seperately and not necessarily in a sane or logical manner. Gnome has one place. KDE another. XFCE another. ROX yet another. GNUStep still another. Mozilla has its own, and then there's the generic MIME associations, a square wheel used by oldschool applications which do not use the newer (but still square) wheels created by KDE, Gnome, ad nausiem. ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
Re: [eug-lug]Associating Files...A Reply to T.
Dang T, gimme a chance to grab an extinguisher!!! I'm NEW to Linux so I don't know it all yetand if you read my second post you'll see I figured out what I wanted to do all by myself! I've gotten some excellent suggestions from the list and hopefully I'll get more as I continue this journey off the beaten path. Nyal R. Cammack Want to visit my neighborhood? http://www.mytrailerpark.com On Saturday 27 December 2003 12:05 pm, T. Joseph Carter wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 06:03:25AM -0800, nyal wrote: Greetings All, I'm trying to figure out how to associate certain file types with certain apps...like Kuickshow with .jpgs and XMMS with .pls files. I know it can't be that hard, I'm just not looking in the right place. If anyone knows of a site that explains how I'd be mucho appreciative. For what? You think this is integrated? The beauty of X11 is that you must configure each and every little thing seperately and not necessarily in a sane or logical manner. Gnome has one place. KDE another. XFCE another. ROX yet another. GNUStep still another. Mozilla has its own, and then there's the generic MIME associations, a square wheel used by oldschool applications which do not use the newer (but still square) wheels created by KDE, Gnome, ad nausiem. ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
Re: [eug-lug]multimedia puzzle...
I can suggest ncftp for a very good CLI FTP client. AVI is a wrapper, AFAIK, for a wide variety of stuff. Even for divx, there are multiple versions. There are some alternative media players for 'bloze on sites such as cnet's download.com ... best wishes for a media-filled new year! cheers, Ben On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 10:19:58 -0800 (PST) Mr O [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Most likely your avi are divx. Get your codecs. | I use scp, nfs, or smb between my boxes. | ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
Re: [eug-lug]Associating Files...A Reply to T.
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 12:32:47PM -0800, nyal wrote: Dang T, gimme a chance to grab an extinguisher!!! I'm NEW to Linux so I don't know it all yetand if you read my second post you'll see I figured out what I wanted to do all by myself! I've gotten some excellent suggestions from the list and hopefully I'll get more as I continue this journey off the beaten path. Sorry if I came across as more disgruntled than I intended. Somehow my answer that more information was needed to answer your question got itself intermingled with a rant on how complex it is to do such a very simple thing in Linux because everyone and their dog has a standard way of doing it which is incompatible with everyone else's standard. Just keep in mind that most of us aren't psychic when asking your questions. Last time I checked, John Edward was not a lug nut. But then again, I'm convinced I'm more psychic than he is (for that matter, so are my sister's dog and the pizzabox sitting in the dumpster behind my dorm building..) But that's another rant. ;) ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
Re: [eug-lug]multimedia puzzle...
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 01:06:44PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: I can suggest ncftp for a very good CLI FTP client. lftp is also rather nice, but it is not always perfect (it doesn't show the MOTD for example..) AVI is a wrapper, AFAIK, for a wide variety of stuff. Even for divx, there are multiple versions. There are some alternative media players for 'bloze on sites such as cnet's download.com ... best wishes for a media-filled new year! AVI files are actually RIFF files given the AVI extension so you know that they contain video. RIFF is also used by WAV files, with the WAV extension meaning that the files contain PCM sound data with no or lossless compression. Apple's equivalent to RIFF is called moov. The name of moov is taken from its first tag which holds the header information which identifies the file's contents. Both come from the Amiga IFF file format, which is described by many Amiga fans as binary XML. I do not know what the R stands for in RIFF, but RIFF is a little-endian format. The Amiga and mac both are big-endian. The structure of the file, regardless of whose version you're using, is as sequential blocks prefixed by a block size and type. I believe the size is a 32 bit number. The type is four bytes and is intended to be ASCII for some measure of sanity when viewed in a hex editor. ie, moov being the QuickTime format used originally for QT movies only, the identifier makes perfect sense. A little more useless/random information, file(1) indicates that WAV files are RIFF WAVE. You guessed it, WAVE is the name of the block which contains the header information telling you that the file is PCM data, what rate, how many channels, etc. Caveat 1: Whether the block name or size comes first, I can't remember off the top of my head. Caveat 2: Given how much uses the moov format these days, I have to wonder if I'm not mistaken about its origins with QuickTime. Caveat 3: I'm not sure if moov is in fact just Amiga IFF and the only thing special about it is the signature tag. Caveat 4: In order for IFF to be binary XML, one must see nesting. Indeed, there is nesting, but not as much as you find with XML. At some point in the file, you wind up with one or more huge bloxks of data in some format specified either by the header or the name of the tag itself. Vaveat 5: There are too many caveats in this bit of useless information. ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
Re: [eug-lug]multimedia puzzle...
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 04:47:05PM -0800, T. Joseph Carter wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 01:06:44PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: I can suggest ncftp for a very good CLI FTP client. lftp is also rather nice, but it is not always perfect (it doesn't show the MOTD for example..) AVI is a wrapper, AFAIK, for a wide variety of stuff. Even for divx, there are multiple versions. There are some alternative media players for 'bloze on sites such as cnet's download.com ... best wishes for a media-filled new year! AVI files are actually RIFF files given the AVI extension so you know that they contain video. RIFF is also used by WAV files, with the WAV extension meaning that the files contain PCM sound data with no or lossless compression. Apple's equivalent to RIFF is called moov. The name of moov is taken from its first tag which holds the header information which identifies the file's contents. Both come from the Amiga IFF file format, which is described by many Amiga fans as binary XML. I do not know what the R stands for in RIFF, but RIFF is a little-endian format. The Amiga and mac both are big-endian. The structure of the file, regardless of whose version you're using, is as sequential blocks prefixed by a block size and type. I believe the size is a 32 bit number. The type is four bytes and is intended to be ASCII for some measure of sanity when viewed in a hex editor. ie, moov being the QuickTime format used originally for QT movies only, the identifier makes perfect sense. A little more useless/random information, file(1) indicates that WAV files are RIFF WAVE. You guessed it, WAVE is the name of the block which contains the header information telling you that the file is PCM data, what rate, how many channels, etc. Caveat 1: Whether the block name or size comes first, I can't remember off the top of my head. Caveat 2: Given how much uses the moov format these days, I have to wonder if I'm not mistaken about its origins with QuickTime. Caveat 3: I'm not sure if moov is in fact just Amiga IFF and the only thing special about it is the signature tag. Caveat 4: In order for IFF to be binary XML, one must see nesting. Indeed, there is nesting, but not as much as you find with XML. At some point in the file, you wind up with one or more huge bloxks of data in some format specified either by the header or the name of the tag itself. Vaveat 5: There are too many caveats in this bit of useless information. @Knghtbrd LordHavoc: moov is basically IFF isn't it? @LordHavoc Knghtbrd: similar overall but not quite @LordHavoc Knghtbrd: 4 byte size, 8 byte name, then the data @LordHavoc Knghtbrd: IFF is 4 byte name, then 4 byte size, then the data @LordHavoc Knghtbrd: (same as RIFF and AIFF) @LordHavoc Knghtbrd: differences between IFF, RIFF, and AIFF are in name restrictions (IFF requires all names be uppercase, for example, RIFF and AIFF do not impose that restriction, and RIFF is little endian where as the other two are big endian) @LordHavoc Knghtbrd: and in completeness (IFF is a larger spec than RIFF and AIFF which do not support things like archives, catalogs, and certain other special constructs) @LordHavoc Knghtbrd: and of course in who runs the registration body @LordHavoc Knghtbrd: (all formats are supposed to be registered) moov begins with those four letters. After that is a Uint32 size, char name[8], and data. Nesting of tags is doable only because Apple has decided that it wants to do that - the data is a binary black box as far as the format is concerned. Interesting is that AIFC files on the mac are not in AIFF format, but actually moov format. That's enough useless information for one day. ;) ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
