README

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 distributions 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 already 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.