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mime.types(5)                                    Apple Inc.                                    mime.types(5)



NAME
       mime.types - mime type description file for cups

DESCRIPTION
       The mime.types file defines the recognized file types.

       Additional file types can be added to mime.types or (preferably) in additional files in the CUPS con-figuration configuration
       figuration directory with the extension ".types".

       Each line in the mime.types file is a comment, blank, or rule line. Comment lines start  with  the  #
       character.  Rule  lines start with the MIME type name and are optionally followed by a series of file
       recognition rules that are used to automatically identify print and web files:

           super/type rule [ ... ruleN]
       The rules may be grouped using parenthesis, joined using "+" for a logical AND and "," or  whitespace
       for a logical OR, and negated using "!".

RULES
       Rules take two forms - a filename extension by itself and functions with test values inside parenthe-sis. parenthesis.
       sis. The following functions are available:

       match("pattern")
            Pattern match on filename

       ascii(offset,length)
            True if bytes are valid printable ASCII (CR, NL, TAB, BS, 32-126)

       printable(offset,length)
            True if bytes are printable 8-bit chars (CR, NL, TAB, BS, 32-126, 128-254)

       string(offset,"string")
            True if bytes are identical to string

       istring(offset,"string")
            True if a case-insensitive comparison of the bytes is identical

       char(offset,value)
            True if byte is identical

       short(offset,value)
            True if 16-bit integer is identical

       int(offset,value)
            True if 32-bit integer is identical

       locale("string")
            True if current locale matches string

       contains(offset,range,"string")
            True if the range contains the string

STRING CONSTANTS
       String constants can be specified inside quotes ("") for  strings  containing  whitespace  and  angle
       brackets (<>) for hexadecimal strings.

SEE ALSO
       classes.conf(5), cupsd(8), cupsd.conf(5), mime.convs(5), printers.conf(5),
       http://localhost:631/help

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2007 by Apple Inc.



12 February 2006                         Common UNIX Printing System                           mime.types(5)