Re: Help needed with cross platform File types (emergency!)

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From: Paul Furbacher
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 00:00

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Johan Forsberg wrote:
> 
> Eric Maziade <maze@novisoft.com.nospam> skrev i
> diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:7p93pq$p3q6@forums.borland.com...
> [Mac file types]
> > Do you know any way of accessing this identifier through java?
> 
> Nope. That would be system specific, so it's not allowed...
> 
> The best solution would probably be to construct some kind of extensible
> file typing class hierarchy for java, that can determine what a file
> contains from the first 512 bytes or so...
> I'm aware of nothing quite like this for Java.

Actually, there is a very useful library, entirely cross-platform, 
which does lots of stuff with file access, and much, much more.
It's called JConfig:

  http://www.tolstoy.com/samizdat/jconfig.html


(That's the second time today in this newsgroup that I've had 
to mention JConfig.)


Paul Furbacher  (TeamB)

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