On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:56 AM, solarflow99 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Here's a question thats been puzzling me, i've been trying to figure out > how > > file types can be set. I have a regular text file that is being > recognized > > as: ASCII Pascal program text and wondering how I can change that. Not > sure > > if this even has anything to do with iconv, theres no clear distinction I > > can find between file types and file encodings. > > > > How are you determining that it is recognized as ASCII Pascal program > text? I am going to guess using the program 'file' which uses various > magic to determine what a file is. The only way to change that is to > either make file smarter for that type of data or alter the data > itself to meet what file is expecting. If you are asking about > something like httpd you can add items where files ending in .ico are > considered a specific data format when downloaded. > thats right, its the file command. So it seems like file uses "magic" and iconv encoding is something entirely different? Even pasting a few lines into a new file still makes it recognized as Pascal.
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