Brian May wrote: > When you loaded that image, whether you used apache, gimp, xv, or > something else, it would automatically know what file type it is without > any excessive overhead. In my opinion one of the best features of BeOS is that the file type is an extra attribute stored at file system level. I would really like to have something, and mime types seem to be the best way for it (I do not know how BeOS stores the type). greets, Rene