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Local File Access

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.



Jon Crowcroft
Wed May 10 11:46:29 BST 1995