> Since very early in computing, operating systems have sought ways to
> mark which files could be proposed by which programs.
The word "proposed" feels very awkward here. Maybe "opened" or "manipulated,"
or some recasting of the sentence that talks about files "belonging to"
programs, or something similar.
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From: CBOR <cbor-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Michael Richardson
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 16:56
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Cc: cose <cose@ietf.org>
Subject: [Cbor] CBOR magic number, file format and tags
Hi, I was thinking about this yesterday too, and after the discussion this
morning at COSE, I wrote:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-richardson-cbor-file-magic/
which is at:
https://github.com/mcr/cbor-magic-number
# Introduction
Since very early in computing, operating systems have sought ways to mark which
files could be proposed by which programs.
For instance, the Unix file(1) command, which has existed since 1973
({{file}}), has been able to identify many file formats for decades.
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