Re: [Nautilus-list] oh, and another thing

[Pavel Cisler <pavel eazel com>]

Thom May wrote:
> 
> At some point around Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:10:49PM -0200, Ali Abdin spaketh thusly:
> > * Pavel Cisler (pavel eazel com) wrote at 23:09 on 07/09/00:
> > > Thom May wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Will nautilus do magic number based resolution of filetypes?
> > >
> > > It already does.
> > >
> > > > MIME types are all very well, but having my .corewars file show
> > > > up with the coredump icon is not doing wonders for my sanity <g>
> > >
> > > That's because there is no magic rule for your .corewars file and the
> > > fallback extension/file name algorithm decides the file is a core file
> > > instead. So what is a corewars file?
> >
> > Corewars is this ALife kind of application thing :) I think a .corewar file is
> > a small little program that tries to take over 'CPU/Memory' in the corewar
> > program. Search for 'corewar' or 'corewars' on freshmeat ;)
> Programs can be written in redcode or another language whose
> name escapes me and they then are set against each other in a
> kind of deathmatch. Very cool, and pretty interesting too...
> 
> Oh, and wrt the .corewars file:
> thom sundiver:~$ file .corewars
> .corewars: English text

So if I understand correctly, the original "file" magic rules don't have
an entry for the .corewars file either, right?

Pavel