Mosaic needs to know what file holds which kind of data. The following table shows the defaults for mappings between its understanding of a MIME type and the file extension used normally to convey this.
Default File Extensions in Mosaic 2.0pre4 .mime message/rfc822 .ps application/postscript .html text/html .c text/plain .cc text/plain .c++ text/plain .h text/plain .text text/plain .tex text/plain .pl text/plain .txt text/plain .snd audio/basic .au audio/basic .aiff audio/x-aiff .aifc audio/x-aiff .tar application/octet-stream .uu application/octet-stream .saveme application/octet-stream .dump application/octet-stream .bin application/octet-stream .gif image/gif .tif image/x-tiff .tiff image/x-tiff .jpg image/jpeg .jpeg image/jpeg .mpg video/mpeg .mpeg video/mpeg .hdf application/x-hdf .cdf application/x-netcdf .nc application/x-netcdf .dvi application/x-dvi .xwd image/x-xwd .rgb image/x-rgb .rtf application/x-rtf .pdf application/x-pdf .src application/x-wais-source .wsrc application/x-wais-source Note: Extension mapping in Mosaic is case insensitive.