Re: An answer to metadata, complete.

[Leareth <leareth geocities com>]

It wasn't ment to replace the "file" command, or even to id file types,
my sujestion was for the single files, not file types.
I could care less how you decide to handle file types,
I want set data on ANY single file, and have it tracked inside & out
of the file type library. I want to set the icon for /home/joe/readme.txt
and have to still hold when I open a shell and "mv" the file. If we
are to have only genral file types, my interest in this project is lost...

No ofence intended, I'm in a bad mood anyway, and I've had to do
this explaination 1 to many times to still sound patient.

On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, James Smith wrote:
>There's already a way to determine file types - Apache uses a mixture of
>magic numbers and file extensions.  All we need now is a database
>telling us how to implement the different methods for each mime type. 
>Something like
>
>		text/plain.read less $@
>		text/plain.edit vi $@
>		image/jpeg.read ee $@
>
>or whatever variables we would want - could borrow from Makefiles.
>
>
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Leareth <leareth@geocities.com>
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