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Re: Application/octet stream



Thomas H. George ha scritto:
A friend sent me an email with an attachment I can't view - probably
some Windoze format.  Iceape says it is a type application/octet stream.

I thought I had installed all the available plugins.  What must I find
to view the picture?

Tom



$ aptitude show file
$ file $myfile

It's also useful for *wrong* file extensions (eg: friend thinks that *renaming* a file to .zip will compress it, and you can't unzip it...).


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