Nautilus and .dat file type

[David L Norris]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 14:12, Alexandre Strube wrote:
> Em Qua, 2004-02-18 às 03:32, Norman Gaywood escreveu:
> > Surely, nautilus should do more that use a file extension to determine
> > file type?
> 
> It seems that nautilus relies on the output of "file" program to
> determine what is the file type, not the extension.

It is not specific to Nautilus.  Both file name and file contents are
used by gnome-vfs to determine the file type.  gnome-vfs uses a separate
database from the file command.  The file name should override the
content-based detection.

Preferences -> File types and programs

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 David Norris
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