Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:29:23 -0600
From: brian@pongonova.net
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Subject: [gopher] Re: Improved binary file detection in Bucktooth 0.2.2
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 05:49:59AM -0800, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> The other thing I might do is just expand the number of file extensions
> Bucktooth recognizes and generates item types for, since -B is the
> fall-through case and there will always be datasets falling in the tails
> of the bell curve.

There is a Perl module that used the /etc/magic file to determine file
types in the same way as "file" does (File::Type).   That might be one
approach...

  --Brian