spir wrote: > I would definitely love an inter-OS standard for storing the > MIME-type in every file's first byte.
A better solution would be to store it in the filename. Might want more detail than one byte could allow too, so perhaps allowing three or four bytes would be a good answer. With the type in the filename, you can determine it easily from a directory listing without needing to open every individual file. This would make a big difference in listing speed on a slow filesystem and by using the name, it is compatible with all systems too.
