gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:30:16 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] reading old jpeg format? 

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 08:56:40PM +0200, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> On my old Mac it had no extension. ;-)
> 
> I added the .bin because I've gotten burned in the past with browsers
> (and sometimes even servers) treating non-extention as non-binary
> (e.g., text).
> 
> I should have picked .xyzw just to make it be unknown and trigger
> binary that way. Picking .bin was a bad choice in this context. Sorry.

Hrm. That doesn't answer the (unspoken) question of whether or not
my magic file hacking triggered a false or true match for MacBinary
I, though...

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gabriel rosenkoetter
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