Hi, On 10/12/07, Bertrand Delacretaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/12/07, Keith R. Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...We couldn't really > > do anything with an octet stream anyway, right?... > > We could have an UnknownBinaryParser that outputs...not much: maybe > just the filename, size and mime-type as metadata.
We could perhaps do something like the Unix strings(1) command does, i.e. detect sequences of printable (ASCII) characters within a binary and outputs just those sequences. It's surprising how much useful data you can extract even from weird binary formats with a tool like that. BR, Jukka Zitting
