On 1/15/07, Louis G5 Batayte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

MacOS X 10.4.8 RB 2007R1

I let the user select a folder, then I search through the items in
that folder looking for jpeg files. Right now I am looking at the
extension to determine if it is a jpeg or not. But I am trying to
determine if a file without an extension is a jpeg file.  If I take a
jpeg file with an extension, and use the MacOS System "Get Info" to
delete the extension, the System "Get Info" still displays the "Kind"
as a jpeg file.  But I cannot figure how to determine this from
within RealBasic. When I look at the contents of the folderitem, for
the file without the jpeg extension,  in debug mode,  there is
nothing there to indicate the file type/kind.  Any suggestions?


From looking at a handful of JPEG files in a hex editor, it appears that the
first 10 bytes of every JPEG file is identical: ff d8 ff e0 00 10 4a 46  49
46. So you might consider opening each file, or each questionable file
perhaps, and reading the first 10 bytes of its binarystream to see if it
matches that pattern.
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