Re: File type not recognised

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.10.2005 um 20:19 schrieb Reiner Steib:

> You can replace the entry in `magic-mode-alist' if you don't like the
> default:

It's not a question whether I like it or not: it's faulty to assume a 
file starting with ``%!TEX´´ is a valid PostScript file!

I have file 4.02, and this version works correctly and reports 'ASCII 
text.' What else should it assume, since it does not know that Richard 
Koch made this signature (or header) an identifier for his TeXShop 
application, making it recognise the encoding (you probably have an 
idea of how many there exist) and the TeX dialect, i.e. which TeX 
programme (or engine in TeXShop terms) would be going to compile the 
document.

``%!TEX´´ is something private yet and not in the least related to any 
PostScript.

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