Revenge of the mutant MIME types

- version 0.1.0 -

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O  About

This application checks all your volumes for illegal (not registered types / illegal characters) MIME types. All these are listed in a window from there you can take further steps. This tool is not intended for beginners -- it's for developers. So if you look puzzled if you hear words like 'file type' or 'application signature' you should perhaps give this folder a nice place in your trash can. Thank you for listening!

Developers are really encouraged to read the section about MIME types!!


O  Download and Installation

Just put the folder whereever you want and start the application. Be sure to read the Legal Stuff first! Compiled for PR2. New versions can be found here or on BeWare.


O  Usage

Hmm, documention comes later -- perhaps?! ;-) Is it needed anyway?.


O  Motivation to do this application

After using the FileTypes preference panel I recogniced that there were very much MIME types that are not correct. To find those files with the wrong types more easily I did this program. So we can easily find out misbehaving applications and beg the authors to do things right. Only this way BeOS applications can interact with others BeOS applications and with others in the non-BeOS space without problems. Support of standards is important (better a bad as no standard ;-)

Btw, I'm not the MIME guru itself. I just tried to get through the MIME stuff as good as I can. Documentation about MIME types is unfortunately not very nice written and most stuff refers to mails (that's why it is called 'Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions' ;-) So if you know things better please let me know!


O  About MIME types


o  MIME types for BeOS developers in short


o  What to do?


o  Hey Be!


o  MIME related links


O  Author

Name:Rainer Riedl
EMail:rainer.riedl@stud.fh-regensburg.de
IRCnet: Hoern on #BeOS (English) or #BeOSger (German)

Any constructive critics, ideas,... are welcome.


O  Legal Stuff

By using this application package the user agrees that the author will not be liable for any damage caused by using this software directly or indirectly!

Warning There is no warranty for this software.
Use it entirely at your own risk!

This software can be distributed freely as long as no files are changed, added or removed and as long as it is not sold commercially.


O  Todo


O  History

v0.1.0   (1998-02-04): v0.0.4   (1997-12-13): v0.0.3:   (1997-12-08) v0.0.1:   (1997-12-06)


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