On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:59:28PM +0200, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> 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.
Though for what its worth I did create a patch for one varient of file that
opened and parsed the summary field information to determine the type of the
file
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/Patches/file.OLE2SummaryAgainst_file-3.27.html
Never got accepted as far as I know.
There was some discussion of this topic on the OpenOffice list as well
http://www.openoffice.org/project/xml/xml-dev/msg00208.html
C.
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