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From: blowfish@triton.unm.edu (rON.)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin
Subject: Re: ftpmail data
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.062503.22741@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 91 06:25:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: ariel.1991Jun11.062503.22741
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In article <1991Jun10.223857.17858@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:
>How about this:
>Make the ftpmail program classify what it is transferring by some means,
>such as "gif" or other strings appearing in the file or any directory
>name means it is an image.  Subclassifications might also be possible.

Standard GIF files start with the characters GIF right at the front. They
can also be 'seen' uuencoded, as they all start with:
M1TE


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