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____/ Gregory Shearman on Friday 04 Dec 2009 08:46 : \____
> On 2009-12-04, Peter KÃhlmann <peter-koehlmann@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I don't care about self-extracting or not. But *file* *extensions* as the
>> main means for the OS to determine what to do with a file? Are we still in
>> the 80s? Even then it just barely acceptable, now it is way beyond
>> ridiculous
>
> Yeah.. the Linux way is to use a magic "number" to decide what the file
> contains, ie the first couple of bytes in the file, or its signature.
In large tar files that assemble others, Konqueror reads beginning of
files to determine file type (and icon) based on it. Really neat!
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