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, > 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