From: Christoph Boget >> Have you tried using 'file -i' from the command line: after all you are looking >> for a MIME type with your fileinfo... >> Having said that, with file -i on my system, Word documents are >> 'application/msword' and Excel files are 'application/octet-stream' > > $ file -i excel.xls > excel.xls: application/msword > > The xls file I am using was generated with Excel (of Office 2007) for > the Mac. So either you have a different magic file (assuming that's > what the file command uses) than I do or different versions of excel > contain different information.
Those two statements are not mutually exclusive. Both may be true. Bob McConnell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
