Re: Viewing files as directories

["Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@rogers.com>]

Nate Diller wrote on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:22:01 -0700:
> On 7/25/06, Timothy Webster <tdwebste2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > ===========================
> > My question
> > ===========================
> > How should directory mime types be recorded?
> > What is the standard?
> 
> there's no standard for this sort of thing, but the Be file system did
> this, maybe it's the 'standard' cause no one else has really even
> tried.  either way, the book about it is *very* worthwhile, and these
> days is free
> 
> http://haiku-os.org/downloads.php?mode=view_dl&id=7

Apple developed their own file typing system.  It's more of a class hierarchy
than MIME types.  Have a look at "Uniform Type Identifiers", a good
description is at http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/11

Maybe there's a standard cluster of UTIs there for containers, like
directories.  By the way BeOS had directories identified with a MIME
type of application/x-vnd.Be-directory and there were other ones for
disk volumes and the like.

- Alex