[Bf-committers] Project openings

[Tom M]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:16:49 +0100, Luigi Monaco <zdys at zdys.de> wrote:

> isn't a gz compressed file distinguishable by it's header¹? leave everything as
> is and just publish the information that if an 'invalid filetype or similar'
> appears people should try to extract the file before loading it.

Many windows programs only pay attention to the extension. Ie if I
change a file with the .bmp extension to .gz then windows xp thinks it
is a gzipped file.

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