Hi Andrea,
what you suggest (checking the presence of certain folders/files) is
the way to go. I have the code already, I only do not have the time to
do it with calm right now.
But I will as soon as I am back.

Andrea




On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:18 AM, andrea antonello
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Simone, Mike,
>> wasn't aware of that weekness in the plugin.
>> Please open a JIra and assign it to me. I am working abroad this week,
>> so I probably won't be able to fix it right now.
>> It will be the first thing when I am back.
>
> One common way to recognize a file type is the use of the magic numbers:
> http://www.garykessler.net/library/file_sigs.html
>
> However it seems I can't find one for the grass raster format. But in general,
> try to open the file header and try to check for an expected binary layout,
> or something like that. Or maybe for this case it might be worth checking the
> location of the raster on the file system, it should be located in a specific
> place in the location directory no?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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