Re: detecting file type by magic number


Subject: Re: detecting file type by magic number
From: Pierre Abbat (phma@oltronics.net)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 07:55:59 CST


On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Kevin Vajk wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, sam th wrote:
>
>> Now detecting abiword takes 8 bytes.
>
>Excellent! :) If and when everyone agrees that it makes sense
>to begin all abiword documents with the string "<abiword", then
>I'd be glad to start harassing Linux vendors (and the UNIX vendor
>I work for) about the magic file.

Also tell KDE. It has its own magic and mime type files.

phma



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