Re: [apps-discuss] seeking pragmatic guidelines for content-type'structure': when to go top-level?

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Fri, 11 November 2011 20:43 UTC

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Maybe we should standardize file(1) magic, create a file magic
registry, and be done.

Nico
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