Re: SSD TBW

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.misc,sci.electronics.design
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:37:07 -0700, Don Y wrote:

> In UNIX, you only have the file name to rely on -- there is no other
> metadata available to an application/system that wants to ascertain
> the nature of the file/object that it is being asked to process.

This is why you have “magic numbers” -- clues in the initial part of
the file.

> In CVS, "wrappers" lets you associate "file types" with specific
> handling options.

This is a CVS thing, not a Unix thing. Git has something probably more
advanced <https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes>.
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