On Mon 17 May 2004 at 01:47:36 +0900, Shu-yu Guo wrote:

> On May 16, 2004, at 12:00, Ian Macdonald wrote:
> 
> >Do you know of any significant differences between your library and 
> >this
> >one?
> >
> >  http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/filemagic/
> 
> Oops, I didn't know that existed (I guess I wasn't very thorough in my 
> search). It was a very simple thing to code, so I decided to release it 
> after I wrote it. There are no significant differences except in that 
> what I wrote seems a bit more complete: you can set flags, check 
> validity of databases, and so forth. There is no compelling reason to 
> use one over the other, I'm sorry I didn't know someone already wrote 
> an interface.

Thanks for the information. I was going to write an extension to do this
myself, then saw that someone had already done it. Then, I saw that you
had just written an alternative implementation, so I wondered which of
the two I should use.

Thanks,

Ian
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