Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "Usr of ".map." in file name causes problems" on HPUX (fwd)

On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, Brian Behlendorf wrote:

> While I think in this situation it might be better to make sure that the

How would you tell? Unix (well, most of 'em) doesn't carry metainformation on a file's data type other than what can be gleamed by its filename. If you have a file called "foo.map" (ignore this guy's mail for a minute"), there's no way to tell that it actually has a GIF image stored inside, other than looking at the file.

> appropriate as well. We should at least try and prevent cores no matter

Nah, I think it's a feature. ;)

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