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From:Donald Dalley
Date:5 Aug 2000 at 04:11:03
Subject:Re: reliable filetype recognition needed

On 04-Aug-00, Andreas Mixich wrote:

> While I am on this I would like to express my disappointment with the OS3.5
> hype (can't stop saying it, it is SUCH a hype, in my humble opinion !).

> AmigaOS lacks in so many things.....Where are some new standards ?
> Like: A styleguide for such file IDs...
> A general, systemwide database engine. Store your hotlists, addresses,
> disk-catalogs, mime-types, mime-actions etc. in ONE database,
> accessible by any program with shared-library access.
> This database could store filetype recogs. All the above
> implementations could be dropped, except datatypes.library, which
> could use this database for recog, or some interaction to the
> devs:dataypes/#? files would be possible...

Andreas: have you talked to Amiga about what you want?



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