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- From: flog@open.ch (Florian Gutzwiller)
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- Subject: Who married FileViewer & /etc/magic ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.212549.13277@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 21:25:49 GMT
- Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: flog@open.ch
- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
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- We're adding NeXT machines to a Sun NFS server. People on the Suns use
- FrameMaker. FrameMaker and Sun applications in general do not agree on any
- convention to use standard file extensions such as *.frame *.eps ....
- Frame users on the Sun must have the freedom to name their documents without
- the .frame extension (I can't change that).
-
- Instead they use the so called /etc/magic file. A table that identifies files
- by it's contents in the head of the file e.g.
-
- 0 string %! PostScript document
- 0 string \037\235 compressed data
- 0 long 0100554 APL workspace (Ken's original?)
-
- Sun has taken over this functionality from S5R3.1 1.25. NeXT only relies on the
- extensions which are classified only by existing (installed) applications. This
- does not work out in heterogeneous NFS environments as the one I described.
-
- The worst case solution would be to create symbolic links that contains the
- correct NeXT specific extensions, but if you're using a document management
- software and over 100 documents are created during one day ...
-
- Thanks for any comment ...
-
- -Florian
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- Florian A. Gutzwiller Phone: +41-61-281-8600
- Open Systems AG Fax: +41-61-281-8603
- Basel/Switzerland E-Mail: flog@open.ch (NeXT)
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