Re: Magicless file formats

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>> Anyway, if the user finds that an application doesn't try to load a file
>> whose name ends in .tga as a Targa file (or worse, attempts to load it as
>> a Group 3 fax file), then the same user will assume that the application,
>> or its programmers, or both, are stupid beyond belief. And rightly so :-)
>
>I would prefer a program that loads a group3 Fax file even if it is
>named .tga

I cannot believe that such a situation would be more common than attempting
to load a properly named Targa file. You can always set the format manually,
but the automatic mechanism should be optimized for the common case.



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