> > OK, so I ran the file command, file attachment.dat, and got this > message: 'very short file (no magic)'. No 'strange' number or strings or > anything! Extremely educational answers from you, even though it's 'far > from Evolution'. Or is it. So 'no magic', 'ey?
The "magic" refers to the mechanism it uses to work out what the file is. Each type of file has a certain pattern of bytes in it that is unique - the uniqueness may be by design to help the process (so there are certain byte sequences at specific points in the file) or it may be coincidental and found by trial and error. Whatever way it is, then it looks like "file" is using magic to work out what the file does - hence the name. If there is not enough content in the file to perform the magic, then you get that error message. If you want to know more, do 'man file' and 'man magic'. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
