On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 09:51 -0400, Christoph Boget wrote: > >> Having said that, with file -i on my system, Word documents are > >> 'application/msword' and Excel files are 'application/octet-stream' > > Fedora11 (2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586) > > $ file excel.xls > > excel.xls: CDF V2 Document, Little Endian, Os: Windows, Version 5.1, Code > > page: 1252, Author: ??????????????????????????, Last Saved By: ELAN, Name of > > Creating Application: Microsoft Excel, Last Printed: Sun Nov 6 18:04:20 > > 2005, Create Time/Date: Tue Nov 1 02:56:47 2005, Security: 0 > > Red Hat 4.1.2-14 > > $ file excel.xls > excel.xls: Microsoft Office Document > > I'm not getting all that extra information. > > > $ file -i excel.xls > > excel.xls: application/vnd.ms-excel; charset=binary > > $file -i excel.xls > excel.xls: application/msword > > > I wonder if the problem lies with the documents themselves. Last May, I > > posted a msg here about how FileInfo was reporting back "application/msword > > application/msword" for some (but not all) Word docs. I never received a > > reply about it but came up with a hack to split on the space, if present. > > I saw that post and that is something we are getting occasionally as > well. And it may perhaps be an issue with the documents themselves. > As I stated in a post I just made, the excel document I'm looking at > was created using Office 2007 for the Mac. > > thnx, > Christoph > To test that, is there any way you could put a blank spreadsheet document created from that same computer online somewhere so that people on the list can check to see if it is the file that is being bad and not your mime types file? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
