Re: [Groff] roff mime types

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 08:43:57PM +0200, Bernd Warken wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 07:38:09AM +0200, Bernd Warken wrote:
> > On my Linux system, the files /etc/mime.types has:
> > 
> > application/x-troff             t tr roff
> > application/x-troff-man         man
> > application/x-troff-me          me
> > application/x-troff-ms          ms
> > 
> > This confirms what is "officially" considered an extension for a roff file.
> > 
> > But `mm' and `mom' are lacking.  
> 
> `mm' and `mom' are contrib packages.  So the package maintainers should
> work on this.  I see two possibilities:
> 
> 1) Get the file name extension an official mime type (who knows where
> this is administered?).  I think this should be done for `mm'.

Official MIME types are assigned by IANA (see RFCs 2045 to 2049,
particularly 2048). However, x- media types such as those listed above
are considered proposed and/or experimental and do not require
registration before use.

As far as I can see, there are no MIME types currently registered with
the IANA for *roff. The contents of /etc/mime.types are up to the OS.

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Colin Watson                                  address@hidden