>Is there any ability in Linux to associate filename extensions, or
>similar, with applications. I have been fiddling with Staroffice and
>that works OK, but I am curious as to whether the ability exists in
>Linux on a broader basis, more to do with such associations in
>Netscrape.
No, that's regarded as userland stuff so it's done on a per-manager
basis by file managers and browsers. This is arguably a weakness of the
Unix filesystem model, it delegates these issues to applications.
Although Linus has said that he would like to see support for multipart
files a la Mac's forks. This is actually stronger than matching by
extension, it effectively creates file typing.
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