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[David Faure]

On Saturday 18 October 2003 23:29, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:28:43 +0100 Geoff Youngs wrote:
> : I personally determine the maximum pattern length, read that in when
> : first scanning the file and use all of that, but 32 should be fine for
> : all the binary formats I can remember coming across...
> 
> In my first implementation I also used to read the maximum pattern
> length, but then I came across a mimetype with a huge offset (msword if
> i remember correctly)

This magic for msword is wrong anyway. There's no guarantee as to its offset,
so there's really no point in looking at a particular offset; it'll only work for 2%
of the files. It should be removed. The only way to identify an msword document
is to use an OLE parser, unfortunately.

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