If you are on a Mac - there is a piece of free software called GISLook that 
allows you to preview the content of vector and raster GIS files.
http://jenny.cartography.ch/gislook/ <http://jenny.cartography.ch/gislook/> 

Cheers
STEVE

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: [email protected] on behalf of Frederik Ramm 
        Sent: Thu 4/30/2009 6:29 PM 
        To: Torsten Mohr 
        Cc: OSM Talk 
        Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] German Shapefile, federal states?
        
        

        Hi,
        
        Torsten Mohr wrote:
        > Is there a way to find out what is in a Shapefile?
        
        Use a GIS program like QGIS to open and display the shapefile and you
        can see what's there!
        
        Bye
        Frederik
        
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