This post by Caolan bounced when sent to the list. Whoever is looking into
file sniffing should check out Caolan has already done.
>From Caolan McNamara:
> I know he submitted code to do the
> above for all Office files to the 'file' (which tells you what's in files
> under unix) maintainers. I'm not sure if the code is in file yet, but I
> imagine Caolan would be willing to submit the code here (or possibly add
> it as a function in wv). For 'magic number'-type tests, file already does
> most of them, so we could borrow code/ideas from it.
That patch to file can be found at...
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/file/
C.
Robert Sievers
Open Source Evangelist
