| From: | Tony Cooke |
| Date: | 19 Mar 2000 at 15:57:11 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: (D5): Filetype puzzle |
Hello James Hays on 17-Mar-00 20:37:42 you said
> Many thanks for the heads up on filetype creation; now all I need is a
>course in advanced physics, and I'll be all set. <BG> Really, I didn't
>realize it was such a complicated process to match filetypes, but I guess I
>should've known considering the variations I've encountered just within very
>specific filetypes. What I can't understand is that even though image files
>have a very specific extension, that isn't always enough to delineate them.
>A GIF is mistaken for IFF, JPEG for PNG, etc. Why isn't a simple filetype
>that only targets the name of a file enough to do the job?
Take heart - at least our system can RECOGNISE file types - unlike
the Micro$oft cop out where if it has a .jpg suffix it must be a jpeg!!!
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