- From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 12:52:26 -0400 (EDT)
- To: pflynn@curia.ucc.ie (Peter Flynn)
- Cc: preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com, mag@ncsa.uiuc.edu, www-html@w3.org
> 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. > > Good point...sounds like a case for an RFC here. You're right. This sounds like a worthy project -- perhaps I'll start a Magic Number Registry and float an RFC. Perhaps there ought to be a File Extension Registry as well? (I already maintain the master terminfo/termcap files, so I have experience with this kind of project.) -- <a href="http://www.ccil.org/~esr/home.html">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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