On Saturday 07 September 2002 15:15, Drew wrote:
> 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 ... :)
[...]
> OK, I'll give that a try.
If you will open this file in a editor of your own choice you
should see a line like this at the top of the document:
#LyX 1.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
or in older LyX documents you will find:
#This file was created by <templin> Fri Sep 17 01:43:05 1999
#LyX 1.0 (C) 1995-1999 Matthias Ettrich and the LyX Team
The Version number may differ
>
> However, I was wondering if anyone else might be able to take
> a look at this file and see if they can open it if I emailed it
> to them?
>
> The file is 400k
Uuups, please not :) But may be you can put it on a place in the
web.
[...]
If the file really is a LyX File than it should be several hundreds
of pages big. I just had a look on the sizes o my own LyX files,
the biggest one is a document with 600 pages and its 500k big!
So if this really will contain a LyX file I would guess it might be
some kind of compressed archive. In some cases a download with
Netscape of a file named unknown.lyx.zip will result in a local
file unknown.lyx.
May be its the best idea to ask the sender of the file what its
content is. :)
bye,
Thomas
