> > /usr/share/file/magic > /usr/share/file/magic has lots of rules to know its type and its just > matching it.
I know it has a lot of rules. Grepping it for excel shows that there are rules in it for those types of files as well. > Maybe your file is quite strange . have you tried with other xls files? Yes, I have; the result is the same for all. > what does "file /path/to/my/excel.xls" say $ file excel.xls excel.xls: Microsoft Office Document Interestingly... $ file word.doc word.doc: Microsoft Office Document So apparently, to the file command, there is no distinction. That seems both odd and wrong to me. But not nearly as wrong as fileinfo reporting "application/msword" as the mime type of an excel document. thnx, Christoph -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
