[rox-devel] Re: feature request

[Stephen W. <st...@ke...>]

"Matthew Weier O'Phinney" <mat...@ga...> wrote:

> -- la le <di...@ya...> wrote
> (on Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 11:40 AM -0700):
> > i was wondering if you guys and gals could possibly
> > add optional support for executing files based on
> > there magic number, as there's plenty of files that
> > have incorrect extensions, or no extentions at all ...
> 
> I believe that ROX is setup to look first at the extension, then at the
> magic number. I know from experience that, for instance, if you look at
> the .DirIcon file in an AppDir, you'll see the correct MIME type -- and
> that file doesn't contain the proper extension.

No, it doesn't check the file contents at all.  Too slow.  The filer
installs a special mapping for .DirIcon.

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