File output on powerpoint presentation

Radek Vokál rvokal at redhat.com
Wed May 3 11:34:13 EEST 2006


Hi, recently I realized strange output on MS powerpoint files. When
getting mine type for .ppt file I get

$ file -ibk test.ppt
\012- application/powerpoint\012- application/msword\012-
application/msword

Note the leading blank character. This breaks output of file -ib which
displays nothing and ends with zero return value. 

Other MS documents seems to be fine, there's no leading white space and
output is correct.

$ file -ibk ipsec.doc
application/msword\012- application/powerpoint\012- application/msword
\012- application/msword

I guess the leading blank is bogus. The file should continue reading
other mine type when there isn't any output. 

Radek

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Radek Vokál <rvokal at redhat.com>
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