Re: [XBoard-devel] mime types

[Arun Persaud]

On 10/01/2011 02:40 PM, Tim Mann wrote:
> Adding more executables would work, though it's a bit inelegant.

yes, a bit ugly... I would think that there should be a way around this,
but I haven't found it so far

> xboard doesn't currently take any non-flag arguments, does it? ISTR that
> WinBoard used be able to take a .pgn file as a non-flag argument. You
> could add code to look at one non-flag argument and take different
> actions depending on its extension (or on identifying it by the first
> few characters of content, if possible).

Perhaps it would be worthwhile to make XBoard more intelligent in the
long run and get rid of the lpf lgf and tf options and just figure out
what kind of file we are looking at before loading it?

Arun