Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:07:13 +0000 From: "Duncan Barclay" <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support Message-ID: <199904281506.IAA20223@mailgate.cadence.com> In-Reply-To: <19990428233307.B30171@gurney.reilly.home> References: <199904281323.GAA25328@mailgate.cadence.com>; from Duncan Barclay on Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 02:23:52PM %2B0000
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> On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 02:23:52PM +0000, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > I whole heartadly support John's idea and would like to add support > > for the ideas of taking with further to encode whatever to get rid of > > the obscene hack that is file extension -> action databases in > > current desktops. > > I think that there's a big difference between data file typing > and application-specific icons. > > Andrew There is, but things like magic and Apache try and type data by scrabbling around in the fiules and guessing...sometime badly. Duncan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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