On Saturday 07 September 2002 05:32, Drew wrote:
[...]
> A friend of mine sent me a file with an .lyx extension
> in the hopes of opening it up to see what it was. It
> was supposed to be some type of image file.
>
> So, I installed LyX on my Linux box and proceeded to
> open the file, but it won't open.
>
> Is there any way that I can tell if this is indeed a file
> for LyX?
>
> If it's not, what else could it be? What else would use a .lyx
> extension?
[...]
On most Unix systems you should be able to determine the file type
with "file unknown.lyx". It should be "ISO-8859 text", ISO type
may differ. And you might have a look on the file content with
"less unknown.lyx" or "more unknown.lyx" or "cat unknown.lyx" or
"pg unknown.lyx" or ... :)
Bye,
Thomas
