Re: Identifying file formats for older files

[email protected] (Bob Paver) Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:42:09 -0500
Newsgroups perl.perl4lib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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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