> Have you tried using 'file -i' from the command line: after all you are looking > for a MIME type with your fileinfo... > Having said that, with file -i on my system, Word documents are > 'application/msword' and Excel files are 'application/octet-stream' $ file -i excel.xls excel.xls: application/msword The xls file I am using was generated with Excel (of Office 2007) for the Mac. So either you have a different magic file (assuming that's what the file command uses) than I do or different versions of excel contain different information. thnx, Christoph -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php