Re: iVS (Was: CVS File Locking)

[Tobias Weingartner]

On Tuesday, February 15, Peter Kennard wrote:
> 
> Very yes. Though unix has extensionless files, the web and MIME are defacto
> using suffixes for file type id.

Ahh, so what does an "extension" of .ico stand for?  What about .lsp, or
even .asc?  Extensions, while "nice" to use for certain things, are certainly
not "standardized".  Even the almighty MIME types are not all there...  How
do you tag a file.tar.gz then?  Application/octet-stream covers a lot of very
broad ground...

--Toby.