From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" Subject: Re: Viewing files as directories Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:25:17 -0400 EDT Message-ID: <5822151589-BeMail@DualP3> References: <5c49b0ed0607250922w60f217dap468d2356129479ac@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <5c49b0ed0607250922w60f217dap468d2356129479ac@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: To: Nate Diller Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, tdwebste2@yahoo.com Nate Diller wrote on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:22:01 -0700: > On 7/25/06, Timothy Webster 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