Re: Image handling in mutt

[Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com>]

On 12/8/23 18:17, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 05:59:58PM -0500, Pocket wrote:
> > On 12/8/23 17:54, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > cc(1) looks at the file extension to decide what kind of content each
> > > named argument file is expected to contain.
> > No it looks for a suffix
> So Debian files have "suffixes" and Windows files have "extensions",
> and they're identical in form and function, but you use different labels
> for them?  OK then.

No "extensions" are required in ms operation systems.

A file spec in Unix/Linux is a string of 255 characters

look it up


> > rename a jpeg to farts, linux still knows it is a jpeg
> Why would the *kernel* know any such thing?  Kernels do not care about
> graphical file types.
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