🚀 go-pugleaf

I'll try to come to an understanding with my client (so he will add a .jpg
or .jpeg at the end of his files - he's the one that needs to be
crossplatform, so...)
But nevertheless, I do not know how mac computers store their filetypes... I
think there is a mac api call that will return something to identify the
file... I half expected to see a crossplatform version of that with java...
but then again, I have a hard time figuring how it could really work
platform independently in any other fashion than the one you described...

Thank you very much for your help!

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Eric Maziade
Concepteur en technologies de pointe multim�dia
http://www.novisoft.com
http://www.novisoft.com/maze
Steve Schafer (TeamB) <pandeng@telepath.com> wrote in message
news:37cc6506.323766979@90.0.0.40...
> On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:05:58 -0400, "Eric Maziade"
> <maze@novisoft.com.nospam> wrote:
>
> >Anyone knows how to know what type a file is, platform-independently ?
>
> The only way to really "know" what type a file may be is to open it up
> and look inside. For example, JFIF-format JPEG files will contain the
> string "JFIF" near the beginning of the file.
>
> Even so, you have to rely on various heuristics--a file could look
> like it conforms to some specification, and you might not be able to
> tell that it actually conforms to some other specification until
> you've read the first 50 megabytes of it.
>
> -Steve
>