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

[David Moles <david moles vykor com>]

I noticed this with the StarOffice 6.0 beta. There doesn't seem to be
any way to get Nautilus to distinguish between a StarOffice 6 file --
basically a zip archive full of XML files -- and any miscellaneous zip
archive.

I just tried to check whether the same thing happens with Gnumeric's
gzipped-XML format, but Nautilus froze for some reason. :/

I suppose this is really a gnome-vfs issue.

Darin Adler wrote:
> 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