From: "Dominic Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:06:39PM +0100, Barbie wrote:
> > From: "Robert Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > From: Roger Burton West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > >
> > > > man 1 file
> > > > man 5 magic
> > > > less /usr/share/misc/magic # on
Robert Thompson wrote:
> This site contains info about the raw file formats of numerous graphic
> types, including sig/header block formats.
And there's always http://www.wotsit.org/ "The Programmer's File Format
Collection".
Cheers,
Philip
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All opinions are
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:06:39PM +0100, Barbie wrote:
> From: "Robert Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > From: Roger Burton West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > >
> > > man 1 file
> > > man 5 magic
> > > less /usr/share/misc/magic # on many systems
> > >
> >
> > except anything written my MS of
This site contains info about the raw file formats of numerous graphic
types, including sig/header block formats. All useful for anyone wanting to
play with graphics.
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~mxr/gfx/
Rob
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From: "Robert Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > From: Roger Burton West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > man 1 file
> > man 5 magic
> > less /usr/share/misc/magic # on many systems
> >
>
> except anything written my MS of course...
Which is precisely what this install of ActivePerl sits on. Luc
> From: Roger Burton West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> man 1 file
> man 5 magic
> less /usr/share/misc/magic # on many systems
>
except anything written my MS of course...
Rob
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On or about Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:48:17PM +0100, Robert Thompson typed:
>Open up the file, read in the first few bytes and grab the magic number.
>Most types of binary file have a marker of some kind to designate what they
>are. Any half decent book on graphics programming should be able to tel
>
> > I don't know if you are parsing mail or something else,
>
> Isolated file.
>
> > If you are trying to figure it out magically based on just
> the file format
> or filename or
> > something (e.g. just pointing it at a raw jpeg) I didn't
> think MIME::
> would help.
>
> Unfortunately I ha
From: "Jonathan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I don't know if you are parsing mail or something else,
Isolated file.
> If you are trying to figure it out magically based on just the file format
or filename or
> something (e.g. just pointing it at a raw jpeg) I didn't think MIME::
would help.
From: "Dominic Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Dunno about your MIME problem (sorry), but somebody on irc mentioned
> trying cpan2.org instead.
Ahh! Got it. Thanks.
Found the following:
"Due to nonuniqueness of MIME encodings, there is a very good chance
that your output will not I resemble y
At 13:27 22/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
I don't know if you are parsing mail or something else, but in the past I've had luck
with MIME::Parser using the effective_type() method to get the mime type out of emails.
If you are trying to figure it out magically based on just the file format or filenam
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 01:27:10PM +0100, Barbie wrote:
> Using the code below, and calling the routine with a *.jpg file. Why does
> the mime_type return "text/plain"? I've also tried using MIME::Head->read
> with a filehandle and it returns the same. I would investigate CPAN further
> for clues
Using the code below, and calling the routine with a *.jpg file. Why does
the mime_type return "text/plain"? I've also tried using MIME::Head->read
with a filehandle and it returns the same. I would investigate CPAN further
for clues (and the examples that ActivePerl decided not to include), but i
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