[Nautilus-list] Re: Using the file(1) command to get information about the document format

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

on 10/8/01 1:52 AM, Paolo Pumilia at pumilia acm org wrote:

> i was suggesting to use file(1) to determine the file type, so as to open
> each file with the right application, even when the file extension is missing
> or when that file has been compressed.

Good idea. Nautilus already does something just like that, although we use
the gnome-vfs feature that's like the file command. Not the file command
itself.

But we don't do it when the file is compressed.

    -- Darin