User Guide

Setting MIME Types 183
Furthermore, you should also use inclusion and exclusion criteria to finely control
what is indexed.
• If your list of file types to index is rather long, use one of the exclusion criteria:
(-exclude,
-indexclude, -mimeexclude, or -indmimeexclude) to exclude
extensions you know you do not want to index. For example:
-exclude ’*.exe’ ’*.com’
• If the list of file types you want to index is relatively small, use one of the inclusion
criteria (-include, -indinclude, -mimeinclude, or -indmimeinclude) to specify
them. For example:
-include ’*.txt’ ’*.1st’ ’*.log’.Setting MIME Types
Known MIME types for file system indexing
The MIME Types which the Verity Spider recognizes when indexing file systems are
listed in the following table.
Format MIME Type Extension
HTML text/html htm, html
ASCII text/plain txt, text
ASCII, source files text/plain c, h, cpp, cxx
PDF application/pdf pdf
MS Word application/msword doc
MS Excel application/excel xls
MS PowerPoint application/vnd.ms-powerpoint ppt
WordPerfect 5.1 application/wordperfect5.1 wpd
RTF application/rtf rtf
FrameMaker MIF application/vnd.mif mif