Re: Guessing based on file extension

[Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>]

Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> On my system, both Word documents and Excel documents turn up as
> "Microsoft Office Document"s in file, but I want to use different
> programs to view them.  (On other Unix systems, they don't tend to
> have anything meaningful turn up in file.)

I suppose I could have checked that before making the suggestion. On
my system Excel sheets are correctly recognized (with version number
no less), but Word documents are seen as `data'. Perhaps this
`solution' will cause more problems than it was set out to solve,
then, and plaing guessing based on the extension may be the way to go.

Hans