According to Dom Lachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Yeah, the Eazel/Nautilus guys are having one hell of a time trying to 
> "sniff" the type of these documents so that they can display proper icons or 
> maybe render some of its contents. They're basically doing the same thing as 
> our RecognizeContents() method (only more advanced than us).

and file(2) shokes on OLE document too.

> >What should we do then ?
> >Create a structure storage model that works ? Use OLE2 ?
> >BTW I think this is not for 1.0 :-)
> >Definetly not.
> 
> Some suggestions have come up, though I'm not sure how much wieght to give 
> any of them:
> 
> 1) EFS - the embedded FS. Used with a few Bonobo apps

Any doc ?

> 2) TGZ - rebels!
> 3) ZIP - OpenOffice

Nope.

> 4) OLE2 - very common

Very dangerous: controlled by Microsoft which will not hesitate to corrupt it. 
We'd better to not bet on the same horse.

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> It should be noted that SWD (StarWriter docs), Corel's WP, and MSFT all use 
> #4.

Flash Pix too.
This raise the problem of depending on libole2 for other importers (remember
my post on SDW file format investigations, a couple of monthes ago ?) 
 
> This is probably a post-1.0 issue, but is well-worth to begin considering 
> and discussing now, IMHO.

Yes.

Hub

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