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Subject:	Re: an "open" command which resolves file associations
Date:	Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:04:06 -0700
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wow i cant belive i never heard about that. thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
To: "Eric Butler" <eric AT extremeboredom DOT net>; <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: an "open" command which resolves file associations


> Eric,
>
> There is a stock Unix tool, "file," that identifies file types based on
> content. It is driven by patterns specified in the file /usr/share/magic
> (which gets compiled into a binary form that the "file" command uses).
>
> You can add to the "magic" descriptions if you have file formats not
> covered (there are over 1000 types covered by the magic file delivered
with
> Cygwin).
>
> Consult file(1) and magic(4) for details.
>
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
>
>
> At 15:23 2002-07-21, Eric Butler wrote:
> >Does anyone know of any tools that figures out what type of file
something
> >is without relying on it having an extention like konqeror ?
>
>
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