On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:07:59 -0000, Adam D. Ruppe
<destructiona...@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
:P
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