> 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.
You are streching it a bit here. :) "#!" only signals execv() that is shuld use the folowing path to interpret the text-file. And 'magic numbers' are really not supported by the filesystem itself on UNIX. > > imc > -Frode
