Re: [Gnumed-devel] force-opening a gif (or other files) on Mac

[James Busser]

On 1-Jan-08, at 7:04 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> I slightly modified the GNUmed code to map mime type to
> extension via its own file on *all* systems if it seems
> necessary.

Is it possible that without the above modification, GNUmed would have  
ignored such a file (under Mac OS) even if it existed? It seemed to  
make no difference that I created and deposited a  
mime_type2file_extension.conf in both
        ~djb/.gnumed
as well as into
        /Applications/GNUmed_0.2.8.0.app/Contents/Resources/

but perhaps something wrong with the syntax I supplied (below ===) .

By the way, I am guessing that the syntax permits only one filetype  
(extension) be provided per MIME type and so, when more than one are  
possible:

1) how would the multiple options be handled for example the  
following? Arbitrary selection

text/html = htm,html
image/jpeg = jpeg,jpg,jpe,jfif,pjpeg,pjp
image/tiff = tiff,tif

2) must the file subtype (e.g. the form of a word-processed document  
or a spreadsheet) be identified and saved with the object at the time  
of archiving, and then passed along at the time of trying to view the  
document? Probably the suppliers of the documents should be sending  
an interchangeable format like Rich Text Format instead of a poorly- 
interchangeable format... I doubt users will be reliably able to do  
their own conversions before storing such things.

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[extensions]

# set extension for bitmap files (mime type <image/x-bmp>) to "bmp"
# (IOW, they should read "<filename>.bmp" when passed to the OS for  
viewing)
#Content-Type --> File Suffix
image/bmp = bmp
image/fif = fif
image/gif = gif
image/ief = ief
image/ifs = ifs
image/jpeg = jpeg,jpg,jpe,jfif,pjpeg,pjp
image/png = png
image/tiff = tiff,tif
image/vnd = dwg,svf
image/wavelet = wi
image/x-cmu-raster = ras
image/x-photo-cd = pcd
image/x-portable-anymap = pnm
image/x-portable-bitmap = pbm
image/x-portable-graymap = pgm
image/x-portable-pixmap = ppm
image/x-rgb = rgb
image/x-xbitmap = xbm
image/x-xpixmap = xpm
image/x-xwindowdump = xwd
text/html = htm,html
text/plain = txt
text/richtext = rtx
text/tab-separated-values = tsv
text/x-setext = etx
text/x-speech = talk
video/isivideo = fvi
video/mpeg = mpeg,mpg,mpe,mpv,vbs,mpegv
video/msvideo = avi
video/quicktime = qt,mov,moov
video/vivo = viv,vivo
video/wavelet = wv
video/x-mpeg2 = mpv2,mp2v
video/x-sgi-movie = movie
application/msword = doc
application/pdf = pdf
application/postscript = ps
application/vnd.ms-excel = xls
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint = ppt
application/x-latex = latex
application/x-msmetafile = wmf
application/x-tex = tex
audio/midi = midi,mid
audio/x-aiff = aif,aiff,aifc
audio/x-wav = wav
drawing/x-dwf = dwf