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.

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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