Mahoro is a (very) simple and straightforward interface to the libmagic
interface, a C library to the well known file(1). It is released in the
Public Domain and may be downloaded from:
http://www.rufuran.org/mahoro.html
It contains an extremely lacking test suite, but is otherwise
functional. On the topic of functionality, it contains a
rather-nonfunctional name; I derived it from Magic -> Mahou -> Mahoro.
A reference is provided for on the website linked above.
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Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three
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Lo. Lee. Ta. GUO Shu-yu shu@rufuran.org
Moved to RubyForge:
http://mahoro.rubyforge.org/
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Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three
steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.
Lo. Lee. Ta. GUO Shu-yu shu@rufuran.org
Do you know of any significant differences between your library and this
one?
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/filemagic/
Ian
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On Fri 14 May 2004 at 06:49:03 +0900, Shu-yu Guo wrote:
Mahoro is a (very) simple and straightforward interface to the libmagic
interface, a C library to the well known file(1). It is released in the
Public Domain and may be downloaded from:
http://www.rufuran.org/mahoro.html
It contains an extremely lacking test suite, but is otherwise
functional. On the topic of functionality, it contains a
rather-nonfunctional name; I derived it from Magic → Mahou → Mahoro.
A reference is provided for on the website linked above.
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Oops, I didn’t know that existed (I guess I wasn’t very thorough in my
search). It was a very simple thing to code, so I decided to release it
after I wrote it. There are no significant differences except in that
what I wrote seems a bit more complete: you can set flags, check
validity of databases, and so forth. There is no compelling reason to
use one over the other, I’m sorry I didn’t know someone already wrote
an interface.
For what it’s worth, I released mine in the PD. 
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On May 16, 2004, at 12:00, Ian Macdonald wrote:
Do you know of any significant differences between your library and
this
one?
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/filemagic/
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Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three
steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.
Lo. Lee. Ta. GUO Shu-yu shu@rufuran.org
Thanks for the information. I was going to write an extension to do this
myself, then saw that someone had already done it. Then, I saw that you
had just written an alternative implementation, so I wondered which of
the two I should use.
Thanks,
Ian
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On Mon 17 May 2004 at 01:47:36 +0900, Shu-yu Guo wrote:
On May 16, 2004, at 12:00, Ian Macdonald wrote:
Do you know of any significant differences between your library and
this
one?
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/filemagic/
Oops, I didn’t know that existed (I guess I wasn’t very thorough in my
search). It was a very simple thing to code, so I decided to release it
after I wrote it. There are no significant differences except in that
what I wrote seems a bit more complete: you can set flags, check
validity of databases, and so forth. There is no compelling reason to
use one over the other, I’m sorry I didn’t know someone already wrote
an interface.
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System Administrator | common. You can do each while thinking
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