On 03/16/10 05:13, [email protected] wrote: <snip> > In actuality the first couple of lines of a file often identify the source > program when you look at them with a hex editor. This should be common
I never said there wasn't some other method to identify the file, I was just saying how Windows does it. > practice but is not as common as I would like it. In this way one would > have two ways to identify a program to open the file, the header and the > extension. That would be nice if the OS could do that for you, but I don't see a point in it. > I know that I will have a program say that the file is not a supported > format when it can't open it. If I look at the header I can often see why. That's why I don't see a point in OS-level file-type association. If the program can't open it, it will holler at you (unless it's vim, which will try to open everything). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed.
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