>Probably not for GIFS. But for documents (say for Chimera) the creator >could be CHM1, meaning Chimera version 1.0, or CHM2, meaning Chimera v2.0. >That's what MS apps on the Mac do AFAIK. Word 6 would be MSW6, Word 5=MSW5. >It's probably better to have a seperate version field though IMO.
Having mentioned Chimera, it actually uses magic-numbers in files as it stands. Take the original Document reader - it either needs to find the string (c)1991 Cookie or (c) 1992 Entropy in the .dcp file, or it won't work. Chimera gets rid of the need for separate DCP and MAG files (bad idea anyway) and supports the JYN file type that was created for the document compressor. As for other stuff... well, I'm going to have autodetect on the file-type and content, but it'll still need user interaction some times. And certain file extensions will be reserved for certain things - *.htx for Milan Salajka's Hypertext format, for example. Still, I'm rambling. Simon -!- Mains Hum: A sine of the times??? +- Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- Fidonet: 2:250/124.2 (Simon Cooke) -+ | Snail:1 Dovey Close, Astley, Tyldesley, Manchester, M29 7NP, UK | | Tel: (01942) 886084 Fax: (01942) 886084 (ring voice first to confirm!)| +- WWW: http://jumper.mcc.ac.uk/~simonc ----------------------------------+
