Unfortunately the only other hint it's got is the file extension. Other than that (well, and it's contents, but mime magic doesn't ever look that far) it's just a regular old zip file. It may not be possible to detect it any better (at least for file and mime magic).
File can't tell the difference between a zip and a jar either. The only difference there (again) is the contents. Actually, if it were to understand jar files it would detect OOo files as jars unless it went yet another step further and actually looked into the content.xml, which would involve decompressing which is way beyond the scope of either program. I hope that didn't sound rude. I just wanted to make sure I covered all the bases. On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 11:46, District Webmaster wrote: > Yes, they are identified as zip files. It's not that mime magic is not > working, it's that I find the results inadequate. :) > Dave > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/21/04 11:24 AM >>> > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 11:21, District Webmaster wrote: > > Does anybody know if the mime magic file (that came w/ my Red Hat > > distro, is used by the "file" command, and a similar file is used by > > Apache's mod__mime_magic) is being actively maintained? I was > surprised > > to find that OpenOffice.org files are not correctly identified, and > want > > to see if there is a newer version of the magic.mime file. > > Are they identified as zip files? If so it's working properly (mostly). > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
