In message <199807211613(_dot_)MAA12788(_at_)math(_dot_)gatech(_dot_)edu>, Richard Coleman writes:
In general, you cannot tell the MIME-type of a file by magic numbers.
In general, no. But for most common files (images, word documents, etc.) the file type is pretty trivial to determine; witness the file(1) command and /etc/magic file. -- Harald Koch <chk(_at_)utcc(_dot_)utoronto(_dot_)ca>
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