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“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)

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Re: “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)

#4
I'm gonna argue that the bug is not in "file". The bug is that the workflow uses file, which by it's very nature must be based on heuristics and will get things wrong occasionally.

EDIT: Well file really had a bug in this case, where they didn't detect what they thought they were, but the point stands.

Re: “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)

#6
post #2

From 2009-04-28. No activity on that bug, or on the bug it duplicates ('file' misidentifies a Postscript file as a Haskell file) for many years. Any news since?

Looks like a fix was released in `file` later the same year https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file/+bug/248619

Re: “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)

#7
post #4

I'm gonna argue that the bug is not in "file". The bug is that the workflow uses file, which by it's very nature must be based on heuristics and will get things wrong occasionally. EDIT: Well file really had a bug in this case, where they didn't detect what they thought they were, but the point stands.

I agree that you should use care when using file. My app relied on "file" to identify file types, and in some cases it mis-identified some Microsoft Office files. The problem was that Apple ships a very old magic file with macOS, and when I reported the bug they said they don't care.
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