Am Dienstag, den 09.05.2006, 13:00 +0200 schrieb David Faure: > On Monday 08 May 2006 13:46, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > Hello, > > > > A question. The (probably outdated?) shared-mime-info database > > specification states, that the offset attribute can contain a single > > number or a range in the form 'start:end'. But KDE MIME magic e.g. also > > allows an expression '>start'. Wouldn't it be nice to have such an > > expression too? > > I think you are confused about the expression ">start". This syntax, coming > from > the magic file for the file(1) command, means " and if the data at [start] is > ". > It's a continuation line, used to add a new criteria to a previous line, the > ">" basically > means "and". Not "starting from".
Ok thanks. Then I misunderstood the syntax. > For mimetype-determination-from-contents to be > fast, offsets have to be fixed, not variable. Ok. Understood. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
