File-MimeInfo version 0.9 ========================= This module can be used to determine the mime type of a file; it's a replacement for File::MMagic trying to implement the freedesktop specification for using the shared mime-info database. The package comes with a script called 'mimetype' that can be used as a file(1) work-alike. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module expects the freedesktop mime database to be installed, some linux distrobutions include it, otherwise it can obtained from : http://freedesktop.org/Software/shared-mime-info This module requires these other modules which can be obtained from the CPAN if they are not allready installed on your system : Carp Exporter Fcntl Pod::Usage File::BaseDir IO::Scalar # optional IO::File # optional COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (c) 2003 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.