[18358] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 [8.4.12]: show/mime
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Sep 27 16:10:28 2000
Message-Id: <200009272010.QAA00710@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Sep 2000 01:48:38 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:10:23 -0400
> So, what you saw is that it's not possible to always distinguish
> between msword files and excel files with file, which is what we use.
Ah
> This means that show-binhex ends up tossing the file to
> show-msword. There is code in show-msword to tet and detect xls files
> and use show-excel to show them, and the reason it's failing is because
> the string "Microsoft Excel" doesn't appear in the output of `strings
> filename` for your attachment. I haven't seen a file like that before,
> so I'd need to take a look at it before deciding if there's a reasonable
> way to fix this.
Looking through the data file didn't look promising, but the info file
created by xbin looked helpful. I'll dist you the message personally
in a minute.
Jonathon
