On 06-Apr-2000 Colin Ward wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 19:55:03 -0400, Brian Mathis
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>The resource fork is something that *should* have made it into every
>>other file system. Determining a file type based on 3 characters after
>>the last dot? *That's* the ridiculous idea.
>
> I agree totally! That's why I use a computer that doesn't work that
> way.
I like magic numbers myself, or at least whatever frobozzations the UNIX file
command uses to give this glorious information:
$ file eye14.gif
eye14.gif: GIF image data, version 89a, 75 x 56
$ file update-hotdate
update-hotdate: Bourne shell script text
$ file beans
beans: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked
(uses shared libs), not stripped
How cool is that!
/* Chris Faherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */
/* Your Stock Market has crashed - please reboot */
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