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Originally Posted by Kirtai
Aren't epubs identifiable by the contents of the mimetype file that is required to be uncompressed at the start of the zip?
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True enough. This is how a Unix programmer would approach this problem. The file command in Unix uses the first bytes in a file to determine the type, while a windows programmer depends on the file extension. Even the Windows OS depends on the file extension, so it is at least consistent.
Dale