FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: MIME type definition

[François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>]

I think 'MIMS' is called B_MIME_STRING, which doesn't really have the same 
meaning (wider), check out
file:///boot/develop/headers/be/storage/Mime.h

Not sure what it's all about anyway,
I'm in the IEEE 1284 docs, page 15 out of 103 :-)

En réponse à Sebastian Nozzi <sebnozzi@xxxxxxx>:

> Hello,
> 
> while working on the implementation of the bin-utilities addattr and 
> catattr (adds and dumps content of an attribute, respectively) I noticed
> 
> something worth looking at.
> 
> As many of you know each attribute type is defined by a 32-bit constant.
> 
> Those values are defined in
> /boot/develop/headers/be/support/TypeConstants.h
> When testing my versions of these utilites I noticed that while
> B_MIME_TYPE 
> in this file is defined as 'MIME' (and therefore my utilities use that
> 
> value) Be's original versions (and the rest of the OS, I'm afraid)
> define 
> it as 'MIMS'.
> 
> Of course the new versions won't work if compiled against incorrect
> values.
> 
> What should I/we do about it? I guess changing the value in the header
> file 
> is the right thing to do, but I wanted to know your opinions about
> this.
> Regards,
> 
> Sebastian
> 
>