> I hope you're just being theoretical. Do you really want mozilla to open every > file it doesn't understand just to see what's in it? And what do you do with > a mime type you don't know about?
This whole discussion is theoretical so far. The question is what theory we should select and put into practice. If we can't figure out the file type based on what the OS tells us, and we can't figure it out based on the contents, we call it octet-stream, of course. That's what the type is for. > But knowing the stat of a file at time t_1 says nothing about the file's stat > e > at time t_2. That's always a issue with unix and it's becoming and issue with > Windows. That would require quite a good bit of code to be redesigned (which may not be a bad thing, mind you). Boris -- Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
