[ANNOUNCE] File::MimeInfo 0.3

[Mike Hearn]

Is file(1) ever going to be ported, or would that be an unacceptable
break of compatability?

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 20:12, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
> The perl module File::MimeInfo version 0.3 is now available from
> CPAN[1]. This module can be used to determine the mime type of a file;
> it's a replacement for File::MMagic trying to implement the
> freedesktop[2] specification for using the shared mime-info database.
> The package comes with a script called 'mimetype' that can be used as a
> file(1) work-alike.
>  
> [1] http://cpan.org
> [2] http://www.freedesktop.org/
> 
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