Subject: Re: detecting file type by magic number
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 09:39:00 CST
At 1:34 AM -0800 1/20/00, Kevin Vajk wrote:
>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.
>
Since an AbiWord file is really an XML file, we should be
starting the file with the XML magic values (<?xml version="1.0"?>)
to properly identify it to compatible parsers.
Leonard
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