Re: Identifying file formats for older files

Arvin, you may want to have a look at FITS:

http://code.google.com/p/fits/

which makes use of DROID:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/droid/

-Brian

On Sep 1, 2011, at 8:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> Unix Solaris would be best because that's where all the files are  
> archived. If I have to move them to a Windows PC to do it then  
> Windows will do as well.
>
> Arvin
>
>> On Sep 1, 2011, Bob Paver <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> What operating system? Windows, some flavor of Unix, or other?
>
>> BP
>
>
> On Sep 1, 2011, at 10:55 AM, "[email protected]"  
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have several hundred files, most from the MS DOS days, without  
>> meaningful file extensions. Most are probably in some old version  
>> of MS Word but I don't know for sure. I'm trying to find a way to  
>> generate a list of the files and their formats. I have tried both  
>> File::Type and File::MMagic on a test directory of known, modern,  
>> files but the results weren't very good.
>>
>> Anyone have recommendations? I'd prefer it be in perl but it  
>> doesn't have to be.
>>
>> Arvin
>>
>
>

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