- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:35:36 -0500
- To: pflynn@curia.ucc.ie
- CC: mag@ncsa.uiuc.edu, www-html@w3.org
From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie> | | *wrong* The .doc extension is also commonly used for Framemaker | documents and for Interleaf documents, at least. | | Right. And a lot of other things too. | | Why, oh why, has our industry (with the notable exception of Apple) been | unable to figure out how to do typed files? | | What's wrong with UNIX magic cookies? --- Nothing is wrong with UNIX magic numbers as an implementation of file typing, except that they are weakly integrated - they don't exist for many kinds of files, there is no registry or namespace allocation convention (actually, there is, or was, though I don't know how widely known it is or who is doing it now that AT&T no longer owns UNIX), there is no way to manipulate them, etc. scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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