Re: File type determination

[Donald Henson <wepin wepin com>]

On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 02:28, John Smith wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 	I followed the discussion/flame-war of the last couple of days
> with interest and since it seems to have died down, I'll throw in my
> E0.02/poke up the fire some ;-)
> 
> 	IMHO the problem is that I see a lot NIH, while the problem is
> easy to break down in two separate solutions: the "identify by content"
> and the "identify by extension" are both valid in their own context and
> can easy suplement each other. Agreed, the Windows implementation has
> a serious short coming (virusses), and the Unix solution isn't perfect
> either. Why not use the i-b-e in the "visual" part (advantage: fast) and
> the i-b-c when it matters, namely when running/double clicking a file
> and let them enhance each other? "Hey, this .png realy wants to run a
> a perl script, let's warn the user".
> 
> 	Just my E0.02.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Jan.
> 
Naw. Too reasonable. :-)

Don Henson