Hello Adam Sampson! On Thu, 30 December 1999 at 01:27:27, you wrote:
> foo.xbm -> image/xbm > foo.xbm.gz -> encode/gzip:image/xbm > foo.xbm.bz2.uu -> encode/uu:encode/bzip2:image/xbm See "http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/magic-numbers/"; - seems like this could be done somehow - somewhere in their mailing list archive I read about 'secondary magic signatures' or some such thing. > I see no reason to put this into kernelspace (hmm, serverspace?). Exactly - and the whole system would benefit - no matter where your files live. > The Acorn RiscOS, [...] (Yes, I think it's weird too.) Weird indeed. > On a different tack, why couldn't #! execution look at the user's > path? Well - that's why it's called the interpreter hack I guess - after all - it is not a clean solution to have the path hardcoded into a script - it's a cheap hack. /bye Dirk
