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- From: ellis@cam-ani.co.uk
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- Subject: Re: MIME
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 14:07:32 GMT
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- jkjell@academy.bastad.se (John Kjellberg) wrote:
- > Can any1 tell me what different types of mime there is. In
- > IBrowse under 'ext. viewers' it's suposed to type something
- > under types and MIME but what? If I whan't to config it
- > for binaries, lha arc or everything that don't fit under
- > any other types that the ones configed, how do I do that?
-
- There are 7 MIME major types:
-
- text - Anything which is largely text and
- probably readable without a decoder.
- image - A static image
- audio - A sound sample, but could be a piece of music
- video - Moving images, possibly with soundtrack
- application - application specific information, e.g. a
- document containing images different fonts etc.
- message - Various uses, e.g. for splitting up a large
- message into multiple smaller messages or
- embedding a message within a message.
- multipart - For messages/parts with more than one part
-
- You must NOT define other major types. I've seen most commonly
- a music major type, this is illegal in the MIME standard.
-
- There are several standard subtypes which are fairly self explanitory:
-
- text/plain, text/enriched, image/gif, image/jpeg, audio/basic, video/mpeg,
- application/postscript, applications/octet-stream, message/partial,
- message/rfc822, multipart/parallel, multipart/mixed.
-
- Other, non-standard subtypes should start with the prefix x-.
-
- In your case you could define the following types which seem to be standard
- amongst Amiga MIME users:
-
- application/x-lha - LHA archive
- application/x-lzx - LZX archive
- audio/x-mod - MOD format
- image/x-ilbm - ILBM IFF image
- sound/x-8svx - 8SVX IFF sound
- video/x-anim - ANIM IFF animation
-
- If you want to be able to send e-mail using this, check out
- MetaTool on Aminet: it has full multipart MIME capabilities,
- and it's **FREE**. It also has a rather good bit in the
- documentation about MIME!
-
- Ellis.
-