>> Having said that, with file -i on my system, Word documents are >> 'application/msword' and Excel files are 'application/octet-stream' > Fedora11 (2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586) > $ file excel.xls > excel.xls: CDF V2 Document, Little Endian, Os: Windows, Version 5.1, Code > page: 1252, Author: ??????????????????????????, Last Saved By: ELAN, Name of > Creating Application: Microsoft Excel, Last Printed: Sun Nov 6 18:04:20 > 2005, Create Time/Date: Tue Nov 1 02:56:47 2005, Security: 0
Red Hat 4.1.2-14 $ file excel.xls excel.xls: Microsoft Office Document I'm not getting all that extra information. > $ file -i excel.xls > excel.xls: application/vnd.ms-excel; charset=binary $file -i excel.xls excel.xls: application/msword > I wonder if the problem lies with the documents themselves. Last May, I > posted a msg here about how FileInfo was reporting back "application/msword > application/msword" for some (but not all) Word docs. I never received a > reply about it but came up with a hack to split on the space, if present. I saw that post and that is something we are getting occasionally as well. And it may perhaps be an issue with the documents themselves. As I stated in a post I just made, the excel document I'm looking at was created using Office 2007 for the Mac. thnx, Christoph -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
