4 Mar
2006
4 Mar
'06
12:33 a.m.
On 3/3/06, Benjamin Smith lists@benjamindsmith.com wrote:
Here's the problem:
[ben@kepler tmp]# file -i presentation.ppt presentation.ppt: application/msword
Excerpt from /usr/share/magic.mime:
--- snip --- # msword: file(1) magic for MS Word files # # Contributor claims: # Reversed-engineered MS Word magic numbers #
0 string \376\067\0\043 application/msword 0 string \320\317\021\340\241\261 application/msword 0 string \333\245-\0\0\0 application/msword --- snip ---
The middle one of those matches the first six bytes of a powerpoint file. Whether it also might match the first six bytes of some msword documents, I don't know.