Re: WAIS APIs

burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu (Paul Burchard)

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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 92 00:09:54 MDT
From: burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu (Paul Burchard)
Message-id: <9206100609.AA01628@horizon.math.utah.edu>
To: Harry Morris <morris@think.com>
Subject: Re: WAIS APIs 
Cc: connolly@pixel.convex.com, mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us, emv@msen.com,
        wais-talk@quake.think.com, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch,
        gopher-news@boombox.micro.umn.edu

> excuse the novice question, but doesn't x-tiff and x-wais-source 

> imply that a particular program (running on an X Windows display) 

> is to be called?

If I'm not mistaken the "x-" refers to "experimental".  I.e,. these  
are not an officially registered MIME types.  (There is no X Windows  
program called x-tiff, by the way.)

Since these naming schemes serve the same purpose there is no reason  
not to have them interoperate; this could be fitted nicely into an  
OOP API.

PB