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- From: MRC@PANDA.COM (Mark Crispin)
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- Subject: re: I have a NeXT-to-MIME filter, what should I filter?
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- Date: 27 Aug 92 21:57:10 GMT
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- Hi -
-
- There is no particular reason to believe that NeXT has ever `mediated'
- between vendors in terms of file extension names, or that such `mediation'
- would be welcome or accepted, particularly on non-NeXT platforms.
-
- Some conventions exist, but for each `rule' established by a convention
- you can expect to find exceptions. If you are only concerned about your
- software running on the NeXT platform, you can probably poke around inside the
- workspace manager to see what extensions are used on your machine.
-
- A safer thing to do is to do some analysis of the file data. For
- example, a large number of bytes less than 0x20 (excepting the obvious
- formatters (CR, LF, TAB, BS, VT, ESC)) are suggestive of binary. 0x00 in
- particular falls into this category.
-
- -- Mark --
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-