Re: Magic for OpenOffice (file)

From: Gregory Seidman (gss+debian_at_cs.brown.edu)
Date: 05/25/04

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    On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 08:33:19AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
    } A quick search in Google didn't reveal any solution (only found one
    } reference, in Japanese).
    }
    } $ file -i file.sxw
    } file.sxw: application/x-zip
    }
    } It would be really nice if 'file' could give proper the correct type for
    } OpenOffice documents. Anyone who has an entry for /etc/magic that make
    } sit happen?

    This is a deeper problem than just OOorg. There has been dissatisfaction
    with file's reporting for compressed/gzipped/bzipped/zipped files for a
    good long time, and the idea of having file actually decompress some of
    the data to get a more accurate result has come up in the past.

    There are, in fact, reasonably good ways to wrap file with a shell
    script to get the desired results, but I don't know of an implementation
    of the file program that supports examining the contents of a compressed
    file. There is no reason it couldn't be done, of course; the file
    program in /usr/bin on Debian is GNU's GPL'd file implementation. I
    could imagine, however, that depending on lots of compression libraries
    might be an obstacle to widespread adoption. One would also have to be
    confident of the libraries' licenses. (I *think* all the compression
    formats I've mentioned have GPL or LGPL libraries.)

    Ultimately, I'd love to see it done, and I encourage you to get
    programming.

    } /M
    --Greg 

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