Bug 3147

Summary:	application/x-dbase
Product:	shared-mime-info	Reporter:	J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen>
Component:	freedesktop.org.xml	Assignee:	Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) 2005-04-27 12:11:25 UTC

See http://www.e-bachmann.dk/docs/xbase.htm; this format is referred to
as "Xbase" by gnumeric as well

--- shared-mime-info-0.16/freedesktop.org.xml.in.old	2005-04-27
19:19:20.000000000 +0200
+++ shared-mime-info-0.16/freedesktop.org.xml.in	2005-04-27 19:20:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -569,9 +569,12 @@
     </magic>
     <glob pattern="*.csh"/>
   </mime-type>
-  <mime-type type="application/x-dbase">
-    <_comment>dBASE document</_comment>
+  <mime-type type="application/x-dbf">
+    <_comment>Xbase document</_comment>
     <glob pattern="*.dbf"/>
+    <alias type="application/x-dbase"/>
+    <alias type="application/dbf"/><!-- Not officially registered with IANA -->
+    <alias type="application/dbase"/><!-- Not officially registered with IANA -->
   </mime-type>
   <mime-type type="application/x-dbm">
     <magic priority="50">

Comment 1 Christian - Manny Calavera - Neumair 2005-10-29 11:43:24 UTC

Thanks for your bug report and sorry for the late response!
Why did you change the comment to "Xbase document"? I wonder whether dBASE-like
file formats use the same extension. According to [1], "Xbase is a complex of
data files (.DBF), indexes (NDX, MDX, CDX etc.) and eventually note files (DBT)
for storing large amounts of formatted data in a structured form. "

[1] http://www.e-bachmann.dk/~e-bachmann/computing/databases/xbase/index.shtml.en

Comment 2 J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) 2005-10-30 01:35:24 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Why did you change the comment to "Xbase document"?

To reflect the fact that this file format is used by products of several
vendors (not just Ashton-Tate's dBase) and that there is no clear single
owner who controls this format.

> I wonder whether dBASE-like file formats use the same extension.

Based on the products listed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbase and
subsequent queries
	http://www.google.com/search?q=clipper++.dbf
	http://www.google.com/search?q=foxpro++.dbf
	http://www.google.com/search?q=recital++.dbf
	http://www.google.com/search?q=flagship++.dbf
and a sponsored link for dbf-recover.com, it seems that ".dbf" is the
typical extension for these files or that at least the term ".dbf file" is
commonly used for this type of file.

Comment 3 Christian - Manny Calavera - Neumair 2005-10-30 02:23:58 UTC

Thanks, fixed.

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