Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 4/22/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 21:49 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > I can't believe you guys are still discussing this. What's wrong with
> > `file $file` ?
>
> I think you missed the beginning (or middle?) of the thread where it was
> discussed that it'd be better if files identified themselves, rather
> than having to work it out, after the fact.  Saving a file with
> appropriate descriptions, rather than having to determine the content
> analytically, has its advantages.

And you're still going to need a `file` type program to read those descriptions.

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