Re: Problem importing files in the newest versions

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 02:10:49AM -0600, gkanis cems umn edu wrote:
> Hi,
> Currently I am using Gnumeric 1.2.0. I have tried the version 1.2.1, 1.22 and 
> 1.2.4, but I went back to 1.2.0 because all the other versions have a very 
> annoying bug.
> When you open a file, gnumeric has this nice option of automatically detecting 
> the type of the file. Unfortunately, it works only on version 1.2.0. In the 
> other version it gave me the error of unsupported format. But, when I chose, 
> from the list, the type of format the file was, it opened without any 
> problem.
> Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Sounds odd.  I have not seen anything like that.

The newer versions can open the file, but do not autorecognize it ?
Content recognition is done in layers

    if (a matching suffix is found &&
        content is probed to be the expected type)
            use it
    else
        check all known types for content matches

If the loaders are working, then the probe routines are available.
What platform are you on ?