31 Aug
2000
31 Aug
'00
12:16 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:08:06PM -0400, Steve Sobol wrote:
Andrew Brown wrote:
the mime type is made up, usually based on the file's extension, which is, of course, passed along with the contents of the file when you transfer it. it's no extra information in this context.
What's a file extension?
it's the last alphanumeric token in a string delimited by dots.
And it doesn't exist anywhere except Windows.
untrue. just think how crippled make(1) would be without extensions. -- [ Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code. ]