FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: MIME type definition -- explained by Lewis Carroll

["Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yes, I believe Lewis Carroll best expressed this idea:

Indeed he did :)
-Nathan

> "You are sad," the Knight said in an anxious tone: "let me sing you a 
> song to comfort you."
> 
> "Is it very long?" Alice asked, for she had heard a good deal of 
> poetry 
> that day.
> 
> "It's long," said the Knight, "but it's very, very beautiful. 
> Everybody 
> that hears me sing it -- either it brings the 
> tears into their eyes, or else --"
> 
> "Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause.
> 
> "Or else it doesn't, you know. The name of the song is called 
> `Haddocks' Eyes.'"
> 
> "Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to feel 
> interested.
> 
> "No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little vexed. 
> "That's what the name is called. The name 
> really is `The Aged Aged Man.'"
> 
> "Then I ought to have said `That's what the song is called'?" Alice 
> corrected herself.
> 
> "No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is called 
> `Ways 
> and Means': but that's only what it's 
> called, you know!"
> 
> "Well, what is the song, then?" said Alice, who was by this time 
> completely bewildered.
> 
> "I was coming to that," the Knight said. "The song really is `A-
> sitting 
> On A Gate': and the tune's my own 
> invention."
> 
> 
> >> 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'.
> >
> >B_MIME_TYPE ('MIME') is not really a type. It just means that the 
> >actual type is an MIME that can be found somewhere else. 
> > B_MIME_STRING 
> >('MIMS') means that it data is not *of* an MIME type, it *is* an 
> > MIME 
> >type. Thus, the BEOS:TYPE attribute is an 'MIMS'. You will notice 
> > that 
> >both are defined.
> >-Nathan


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