unidentified image format

Robert A. Baron (mailto:rabaron@PIPELINE.COM)
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:51:08 -0500

Message-Id: <199901181606.JAA30878@dns.ccit.arizona.edu>
Date:         Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:51:08 -0500
From: "Robert A. Baron" <mailto:rabaron@PIPELINE.COM>
Subject:      unidentified image format
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

Sometimes I am sent image files without any format identifiers.  My PC
programs will not identify these automatically and won't open them.
Usually they are JPEGs or GIFs, so I rename them to one and/or the other
and can eventually open them.  But sometimes I just can't guess.  Is there
a way to find out what kind of image file I have when there is no
three-character suffix in the filename?

R.Baron mailto:rabaron@pipeline.com