On Mon, 21 Aug 95 16:46:31 PDT, Stefan Drissen said: > Wouldn't it be just as easy to have a 4 character text field? No need for > the magic file > then.
There's nothing to stop you storing text characters in there. Many magic numbers on Unix consist of printable characters. It doesn't even have to be 4 bytes. "#!" is a magic number on Unix. A Unix magic number is the first <variable number> of bytes in the file. imc
