[Gllug] StarOffice

[Paul Brazier]

I can also find no reference in the documentation as 
> to what a BIN
> File is and how to unpack this if that is what I have to do. The bin
> appended to the end of the name would indicate some sort of 
> self executing
> file but I find that hard to believe in a Linux box. Forgive 
> my ignorance.

You can use the "file" command to get the type of a file.
Apparently it uses some kind of heuristics to work out if it's an
executable, text, picture, movie, shell script etc.
So you could I suppose call your shell scripts *.txt or *.jpeg and
programs should still know what they really are.


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