On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Fabio Gomes wrote: > File type determination by content is crap. It's a misfeature. It is > completely unnecessary. Its benefits do not compensate its drawbacks: The "right solution" might be to use file content as a fallback if the file extension doesn't have a completely unambiguous meaning. e.g.: For *.txt filenames, always treat them as text/plain For a 'README' filename, guess based on content. -- Elliot At the School of Hard Knocks, tuition is always high. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
