Legacy and file format issues

[Mark Smith]

You only need to read the first couple of bytes - in a 'legacy stack'  
the first 2 bytes will be '#!', whereas in a newer stack they will be  
"RE".

Best,

Mark


On 14 Sep 2007, at 12:26, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> Presumably (???) if one were to save a simple stack in
> the 2 formats and then do a comparison with a
> text-editor one could work out the difference, and
> even "run-off" a wee standalone that could be used to
> convert stacks back and forth.
>
> Of course, I suspect the above is heresy.
>
> sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
>