Re: 23.0.60; Can't paste from files with .arc extensions

[tomas]

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On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:58:38PM -0400, Brian Adkins wrote:
> Richard Stallman wrote, On 03/09/2008 04:53 PM:
> >     Paul Graham's new Arc language uses .arc as an

[...]

> What is the problem? Arc programming language files are plain text and 
> archive files are binary, right? Shouldn't that be enough to distinguish 
> between them?

And how you distinguish between that?

Anyway -- ARC the archive format seems to have a semi-reliable magic
signature. There is a byte hex 1A at the beginning, the following byte
should be between 0 and 8[1].

But I don't know whether its worth it...

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[1] 
<http://arc.cvs.sourceforge.net/arc/arc/Arcinfo?revision=1.1.1.1&view=markup>

    Although the seem to expect "leading garbage" of up to 64K, which makes
    detection somewhat of a challenge :-(

Regards
- -- tomás
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