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Article #75re: I have a NeXT-to-MIME filter, what should I filter?
From: Mark Crispin
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:57
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:57
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Hi -
There is no particular reason to believe that NeXT has ever `mediated'
between vendors in terms of file extension names, or that such `mediation'
would be welcome or accepted, particularly on non-NeXT platforms.
Some conventions exist, but for each `rule' established by a convention
you can expect to find exceptions. If you are only concerned about your
software running on the NeXT platform, you can probably poke around inside the
workspace manager to see what extensions are used on your machine.
A safer thing to do is to do some analysis of the file data. For
example, a large number of bytes less than 0x20 (excepting the obvious
formatters (CR, LF, TAB, BS, VT, ESC)) are suggestive of binary. 0x00 in
particular falls into this category.
-- Mark --
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!ucbvax!PANDA.COM!MRC From: MRC@PANDA.COM (Mark Crispin) Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media Subject: re: I have a NeXT-to-MIME filter, what should I filter? Message-ID: <MailManager.714952630.790.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> Date: 27 Aug 92 21:57:10 GMT References: <davecb.714921161@yorku.ca> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 18