From: Olivier R. <oli...@un...> - 2003-03-04 12:24:43
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Thomas Leonard wrote: > Version 0.10 of the shared MIME database is out now: > > http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info.html > > There have been changes to the format of the generated magic files, but > that doesn't affect us. Some new types have been added and the update > command performs more error checking. > > If packagers send me new RPMs, etc, I can put them on the site. > > Please report any bugs... > Off-topic maybe, but after all, I have to mention it once. *.dat is associated to the DAT (digital audio tape) format. This is not very good IMHO, as I've never seen such file in 10 years of multi-platform computer experience. On the other side, .dat has been used for many-many years, even before the DAT existence for data files. For instance in Linux, scigraphica exports to this format. Matlab on Windows/Linux/Unix also can export to this IIRC. So why not pushing towards this mime-type database change? On a completely unrelated topic, I've compiled a Rox-Filer 1.3.7 rpm for Mandrake 9.0, it is located at: http://olivier.ripoll.free.fr/rpms/ Unfortunately, it installs in /usr/appsdir as the previous one (1.3.6) Regards, Olivier. |