"Bahram Alinezhad" (alineziad@yahoo.com) wrote: ----------

In both nautilus and konqueror, file-types are often recognized correctly only when the file extension be missing; When a file has an extension, unexpected answers appear. Question is: If these file-browsers detect the file-format from its content, why are they deceived by extension? Generally, gnome detects file-types better than KDE, e.g. examine some MPEG files with .dat extension. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

"CorvusE" (lists@pjsattic.com) wrote: ----------

I cannot recreate this problem. Perhaps the files in question have bad headers? <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

"Sid Boyce" (sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk) wrote: ----------

File extensions are a DOS/Windows invention or stolen from CPM as they can't detect file types, as far as they are concerned, if you rename a .mpeg file to .txt, it's a text file, right?, wrong, it's still MPEG, but dumb operating systems can't figure that out.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Copy a "shell-script" file to your home-directory and give it .zip .mpg .tar or .exe extensions; What do you see in Konqueror?! Repeat the same test with Nautilus.

Thank you for your notice, Bahram Alinezhad, Rudehen, Tehran, Iran. OK, that's one for bugs.kde.org, that shouldn't happen, it should use

Bahram Alinezhad wrote: the file command which understands file types. I shall post that up as a bug to them. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====