It was thus said that the Great Martin Ebourne once stated:
>
> My favourite example of the fail that is caused by not having strong
> filetype metadata is this bug where OpenOffice is unable to print on
> Tuesdays:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161
>
> and for the specific comment that enlightens us all:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28
Because file misidentified the file type.
Yes, file is nice, except when it can't identify the type of a file, which
in my experience (and it's rather recent) is less than 100%, and in one
particular case, it only correctly identified the file type 42% of the time.
Okay, in that case, I had to write a custom program to locate mbox files
(a hate unto itself). I located (in my own directory) 2,351 such files
(current email, archived email, yada yada). I ran file (actually, "file -i"
to return the MIME type) across all 2,351 files, and here's what I got:
1183 text/plain
988 text/x-mail
146 text/x-news
16 application/octet-stream
5 text/x-c
3 text/x-c++
Sigh.
-spc (And what I learned from that was, don't trust the extension and
don't trust file ... )
