[Gllug] Best format, for everyone, for saving documents.

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:57:06PM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Pete Ryland writes:
> 
> >> 	isengard:~% file foo.png foo.gnumeric
> >> 	foo.png:      PNG image data, 400 x 712, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced
> >> 	foo.gnumeric: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970, os: Unix
> >
> >Try "file -z" then. :-)
> 
> That's not much better:
> 
> 	foo.gnumeric: XML document text (gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970, os: Unix)
> 
> So it's a compressed XML file. Great. Is that from OpenOffice, Gnumeric,
> something entirely different? You lose the ability to extract metadata
> about the document in any sensible fashion. Far better to have a well
> thought out chunked file format.

Hmmmm .. or fix the 'file' command of course.

Rich.

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