Is this a Nautilus bug?
Alf-Ivar Holm
alfh at student.matnat.uio.no
Tue Aug 9 08:53:51 UTC 2005
Lee Braiden <lee_b at digitalunleashed.com> writes:
> On Monday 08 August 2005 14:58, Dick Davies wrote:
>> It uses the file extension.
>>
>> yes, that's really dumb.
>
> Agreed. But on the other hand, "guessing" a file type by the byte patterns
> that happen to be inside (when many file formats are not designed for that)
> is pretty dumb too. The only other real solution is using extended
> attributes to store filetype info.
How about using both approaches, and if file extension doesn't match
file(1) output, give a warning, but still along with some options?
Affi
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