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- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 18:36:54 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Protection bits
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- From: john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx)
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- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 10 Jan 96 Nick Christie wrote to All:
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- NC> fish@csc.liv.ac.uk (S.E. Morris) wrote:
- NC> [about automatic filetype recognition]
- >> Why not store this infomation in the file's .info file?
-
- NC> You there was a semi-standard FILETYPE=xxx tooltype, but this never
- NC> really caught on.
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- Reading the .info file is too slow, you might as well check the files contents
- instead, it would be just as slow. Also, .info files aren't available for all
- files so this system would only identify files with an icon.
-
- Grtz John
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