L.D. Best wrote:
>
> I don't know how much bloat would/could be involved. I know that the
> first 50 characters or so of GIF files and JPG files have the identifier
> there for all [including a program] to see. I don't know about BMP or
> ZBM [could look for pkzip in that space?] or PNG of many of the other
> options out there.
Hi LD;
I think there would be quite a bit of unsatisfactory bloat added to Arachne
if she had to peek inside files to decide what they were - not to mention
the obvious negative impact on speed.
Re: ZIPs, the letters PK are in first few bytes, and re: ZBMs, those PK
letters will be found, followed a few bytes later by a filename ending
in .BMP.
But maybe we should stick to fixing Arachne's own bugs before trying to get
around the mistakes of others ? <G>
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