Re: C file recoginzed as image file

[Stefan Monnier]

> And let's not forget that a file with a .c extension containing a GIF
> image is absolutely, non-ambiguously a GIF, whatever the .c may seem
> to imply.

Actually that's not true.  The nature of a file in Unix is neither
determined by its name nor by its content but by what you do with it.
If you pass it to `display', it's a GIF image; if you pass it to `cc' it's
a C program; if you pass it to `hexl' it's a byte-stream; if you pass it to
`more' it's a text file.


        Stefan