[PLUG] Unknown Document File Types

Renegade Penguin renegadepenguin at comcast.net
Thu Aug 25 17:03:57 UTC 2005


One of the best ways I've found is to use MS Word on Windows - it will 
often retrieve more file types than konq, OO, WP, etc.  I'd try OO first 
though.

RP

Richard C. Steffens wrote:

> I have a set of files from a Mac using friend, who isn't very 
> sophisticated around computers. He composed this set of files a number 
> of years ago -- well before OS-X -- and doesn't remember what word 
> processor he was using at the time. It appears that there are several 
> different file types involved, so he probably used different word 
> processors at different times.
>
> Is there a Linux tool available that will identify what was used to 
> create a document? As I look at them with Konqueror's file browser, 
> some of them are described as text files, some are described as troff 
> files, and the rest are described as unknown.
>
> The ones identified as text files do open as text files with Kate, but 
> the text is obviously not correct. An example is:
>
> W�walke�alon�tree-line�ban� o�th�Ca�Rive�a�sunset
>
> The ones labeled troff files open with Kate and display some text as 
> well as some graphic characters, like a rectangular box, sometimes 
> solid, sometimes just an outline, etc. Some of the ones described as 
> unknown type by Konqueror open with Kate and display normal text for 
> the most part, but some display mostly rectangular boxes.
>




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