- MIME types for BeOS developers in short
- What to do?
- MIME related links
- Common MIME types on BeOS
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O MIME types for BeOS developers in short



O What to do?



O MIME related links



O Common MIME types on BeOS

This is a list of commonly used MIME types, that are interesting for BeOS. It should help to use the same MIME type for the same kind of type, even if it's not registered. This is just a beginning. This list should grow, so your help is appreciated. Please email me if you think you have a type that is missing, if you have better description, if you have a link or if you know of an error (I'm sure there are some:-). The newsest version of this list you will find here. (Last updated: 1998-07-22).

MIME type Extension Description  
o Application
application/msword doc Word Document   [Microsoft] X
application/macwriteii ? Write II Document   [Apple]  
application/postscript ps PostScript file   (RFC 1341)   [Adobe] X
application/pgp-signature ? 'Pretty Good Privacy' signature   (RFC 2015) X
application/pgp-keys ? 'Pretty Good Privacy' keys   (RFC 2015) X
application/pgp-encrypted ? 'Pretty Good Privacy' encrypted file   (RFC 2015) X
application/pdf pdf Acrobat Portable Document Files   [Adobe] X
application/octet-stream -- Plain stream of data   (RFC 1341)  
application/vnd.hp-PCL ? Printer language data (Printer Control Language)   [HP] X
application/vnd.hp-HPGL hgl Vector data language for printers (HP Graphics Language)   [HP] X
application/vnd.ms-excel xls Excel spreadsheet data   [Microsoft]  
application/zip zip Archives produced with zip X
application/x-bzip bz Archives produced with bzip  
application/x-bzip2 boz Archives produced with bzip2 over zip  
application/x-bzip2 bz2 Archives produced with bzip2, the copyright free version of bzip  
application/x-compress z, Z Archives produced with compress  
application/x-gzip gz, tgz Archives produced with gzip  
application/x-dvi dvi Device Independend file produced with TeX  
application/x-tar tar Archives produced with tar X
application/x-uuencode uue File, encoded with uuencode X
o Audio
audio/32kadpcm ? ITU G.721 encoded audio data  
audio/basic au 8-bit 8 KHz ISDN mu-law encoded audio X
audio/x-aifc ? ?  
audio/x-aiff aif, aiff Audio Interchange File Format X
audio/x-jam jam JamTracker Module file (Amiga module format)  
audio/x-midi mid Standard Musical Instrument Digital Interface file format  
audio/x-mod mod Amiga Tracker Module file  
audio/x-mpeg mp MPEG I audio stream  
audio/x-mpeg mp2 MPEG I layer 2 audio stream  
audio/x-mpeg mp3 MPEG I layer 3 audio stream  
audio/x-mtm mtm MultiTracker Module format  
audio/x-riff ? Resource Interchange File Format   [Microsoft, IBM]  
audio/x-wav wav, wave Waveform audiofile format   [Microsoft]  
audio/x-psid sid C64 tunes and sound effects file format , coming from PlaySID  
o Image
image/cgm cgm Computer Graphics Metafile, ANSI vector graphics file format X
image/jpeg jpg, jpeg Lossy pixel graphics format   [Independent JPEG Group] X
image/gif gif Graphics Interchange Format   [CompuServe] X
image/png png Portable Network Graphics X
image/tiff tif, tiff Tagged Image File Format X
image/vnd.dxf dxf Drawing Interchange Format, coming from AutoCAD   [AutoDesk] X
image/x-bmp bmp Bit-mapped graphics format   [Microsoft] X
image/x-pcx pcx Pixel graphics format, coming from Paintbrush   [ZSoft] X
image/x-portable-anymap pnm Portable AnyMap format, coming from netpbm  
image/x-portable-bitmap pbm Portable BitMap format, coming from netpbm  
image/x-portable-graymap pgm Portable GreyMap format, coming from netpbm  
image/x-portable-pixmap ppm Portable PixelMap format, coming from netpbm  
image/x-targa tga Targa image file format  
image/x-xbitmap xbm X11 BitMap format  
o Message
message/news -- Usenet News text file   (RFC 1036)  
message/rfc822 -- EMail text file   (RFC 822)  
o Model
model/vrml vrml Virtual Reality Markup Language   (RFC 2077)  
model/x-pov pov Persistance of Vision  
o Text
text/css css Cascading Style Sheet   (RFC 2318)  
text/enriched ? Enriched textfile   (RFC 1896)  
text/html htm, html Hyper Text Markup Language   (RFC 1866)  
text/rfc822-headers ? EMail header text   (RFC 822)  
text/plain txt Plain textfile   (RFC 1341)  
text/richtext ? Richtext textfile   (RFC 1341)  
text/rtf rtf Rich Text File format   [Microsoft]  
text/sgml sgml Standard Generalized Markup Language   (RFC 1874)  
text/tab-separated-values tsv Tab-Separated Values file  
text/uri-list uris, uri List of URI's (URL's or URN's)  
(text/x-email) -- Use message/rfc822 instead!!  
text/x-latex ltx Input file for LaTeX  
text/x-tex tex Input file for TeX  
o Video
video/quicktime qt, mov QuickTime video   [Apple] X
video/mpeg mpg, mpeg MPEG   [Moving Picture Experts Group] X
video/vnd.vivo viv Vivo movie format   [Vivo]  
video/x-msvideo avi Audio Video Interleave   [Microsoft] X

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