Re: Filetype identification in gmc

["Mark R. Bowyer" <Moredhel earthling net>]

>From: "Scott Haug" <eldamitri@hotmail.com>

>AFAIK (and I reserve the same right that you do), the 'file' command uses 
>bit patterns at predefined offsets to determine file types, i.e. it opens 
>the file and reads a few bytes.  To do this in gmc would mean opening and 
>reading *lots* of files, and could put a strain on performance due to disk 
>access.


Yup, that's the story I got a few months back when I complained about this.  
Mostly it doesn't matter too much.  But since Perl libraries and X Pixmaps both 
use *.pm, it *can* have some funny results =OZ

Ta,

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