Re: NetCDF UTI's on Mac OS X

• To: Johan Kool <johankool@xxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: NetCDF UTI's on Mac OS X
• From: Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:28:50 -0600

Hi Johan,

>  ... I am not exactly aware  
> if there are any specific MIME types already is common use, if so,  
> I'd be happy to hear.

I think there is a netCDF MIME type already in common use:

  application/x-netcdf           nc

If you Google

  "mime types" netcdf

you get about 36,000 hits, and they all seem to use the above.

> Any objections against the UTTypeIdentifier's proposed?

No, other than using the more widely-used mime type.  Thanks for your
work on this.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
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  • NetCDF UTI's on Mac OS X
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