[File] Where to put new magic?

[Christos Zoulas]

> On Nov 25, 2025, at 4:47 PM, B. Watson <urchlay at slackware.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> I've been working on & off for years on magic to identify various
> Atari 8-bit file formats, and will be sending patches soon.
> 
> I'm trying to decide if it's better to have all the Atari 8-bit
> related stuff in a single file in Magdir (called "atari8"), or should
> they be split up & added to existing files where it makes sense
> (e.g. ALF and Disk Communicator files might go under 'archive').
> 
> Does anyone actually care about this? If not, I'll keep them all
> together in one file, to make it easier for me to maintain.
> 
> I see "Atari ATR image" already exists in 'images', and "Atari 8-bit
> SAP audio" exists in 'audio'. If I do use a single file for all the
> Atari 8 stuff, it would make sense to move these entries there, too,
> right?

Choosing when to put stuff in a separate file is pretty arbitrary, usually
size plays a factor. And why call it atari8 instead of just atari?

christos

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