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.
Personally, I think extension approaches suck. Then again, I've been a UNIX guy for 25 years. I think that maybe the file determination needs to be refined.
Actually, the best solution would be to support both and let the user choose.
-- Until later, Geoffrey esoteric@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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