File-MimeInfo
=============
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 <http://cpan.org> if they are not allready installed on
your system :
Carp
Exporter
Fcntl
Pod::Usage
File::Basename
File::BaseDir
File::DesktopEntry
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (c) 2003,2008 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.