Re: [Help-gnunet] libextractor

[Christian Grothoff]

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 02:36, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> I do understand the purpose of libextrctor: to recognize a file type by
> its content. However, what are the advantages of libextractor over 'file'?
>   Because it recognizes more file types? (Then why not extend file)
>   Because it can be integrated as a library? (couldn't file be simply
> piped)

Well, LE does do much more than file. LE can for example read ID3 tags in mp3 
files, or give you the size of an image, or the title of an HTML page, or the 
number of pages in a dvi file.  LE is not just doing mime-type 
identification.

> I'm not negative, just curious here. Plus, I'd like to avoid many
> redundant programs on my box when there is already one which tries to do
> the job.

Sure.

Christian