Re: Ghostscript?

Michael Adams <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.hawkes-bay
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:33:00 +1200
Came this utterance formulated by Perry Spiller to my mailbox:

> 
> Been skyping with Chris, this morning.
> 
> Speculated that it came from a Mac.
> 
> Added .pdf as an extension
> 
> File opened.
> 
> (Chris also converted it to jpg, for me, as well.)
> 
> Gotta wonder why people send attachments in
> such a clueless fashion.

Extensions are a "Quick & Dirty Operating System"* invention. Most
sensible OS's will use mimetypes which are stored within the file
content.


* Precursor to Windows purchased by Microsoft which became PCDOS then
MSDOS.


-- 
Michael

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