Subject: Re: detecting file type by magic number
sterwill@abisource.com
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 10:01:20 CST
Kevin Vajk 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.
I'm wondering if starting with "<abiword>" isn't as clean as doing
something more established (like declaring our XML DTD through
something like "<!doctype ...>"). I know too little about XML
conventions to concoct the needed string, and we're going to need
to tag our documents eventually.
-- Shaw Terwilliger
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