From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: default mime for attaching files
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:47:58 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4mejozyj8x.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lkj7q506.fsf@patagonia.sebmags.homelinux.org>
>>>>> In <87lkj7q506.fsf@patagonia.sebmags.homelinux.org>
>>>>> Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
> The reason I wanted to do this is that people I've sent *.tar.gz files
> with the default application/octet-stream complained that they couldn't
> "open them" well in their systems (I couldn't get more details than
> that). So I came across this:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip
> Is this incorrect?
application/x-gzip for .gz files seems to be the de-facto
standard nowadays. While I don't have the personal mime.types
file, Fedora Core 6 Linux that I use assigns it to gz and tgz in
the /etc/mime.types file. So, such files I send will be all
labeled with application/x-gzip actually. ;-)
Regards,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-09 5:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-09 0:52 Sebastian P. Luque
2007-02-09 2:00 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-02-09 5:22 ` Sebastian P. Luque
2007-02-09 5:47 ` Katsumi Yamaoka [this message]
2007-02-17 23:46 ` Sebastian P. Luque
2007-02-18 0:34 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-02-18 3:32 ` Miles Bader
2007-02-19 12:22 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-02-19 19:49 ` Reiner Steib
2007-02-19 23:27 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-02-19 23:49 ` Sebastian P. Luque
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