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====Internet Media Types====
~Formerly known as MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) types.  These identify different types of files allowing software to handle them correctly.  Puppy uses the standard provided by freedesktop.org.

~When making a non-standard MIME-type use x- in the MIME-type name, for example ##application/x-tmd## for a [[TextMaker]] document (registered ones are at [[www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/ IANA.org assigned media-types]]).


==Also see==
~[[HowToAddMIMEType How To Add MIME Type]]
~[[AssociateFiles How to Associate Files to programs]]
~[[MicrosoftMIMEtypes Microsoft Office MIME-types]]
~[[SharedMimeInfo shared-mime-info]] - MIME-Type descriptions from freedekstop.org
~[[http://www.freedesktop.org freedesktop.org - open standard for linux]]
~[[www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/ IANA.org assigned media-types]]
~[[http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIME_Types_and_File_Extensions MIME Types and File Extensions]]
~[[WikiPedia:Internet_media_type]]
~[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=612385 Mime icons for ROX-Filer thread]]

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