How to check a file type (was Re: It's not a rpm......)

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From: Moritz Moeller-Herrmann
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 00:00

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On Sat, 6 Mar 1999 00:47:32 -0000, Pants <pants@chesterleos.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Adam Short wrote in message <7bonli$mpu$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>...
>>Just rpm the WP8.0 file and it will install it. Then use xwp (I think) to
>>run the program from the command line. Worked for me!
>>
>It's a GZ file what do I do now? I can't expand it......God I hate
>computers....
Whenever you want to find out what a file really is. Use the command 'file'

#file Wine-990214.diff.gz 
Wine-990214.diff.gz: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Sun Feb 14 15:31:35 1999, max compression, os: Unix
                     ^^^^

You can easily see that this is a compressed file. It was made with the program
gzip. Just gunzip it.

#gunzip Wine-990214.diff.gz

#file Wine-990214.diff
Wine-990214.diff: 'diff' output text
                   ^^^^
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Moritz Moeller-Herrmann mmh@gmx.net ICQ# 3585990
Why do you pay BIG BUCKS for "micro" software with BIG BUGS?

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From: moritz@news.uni-mannheim.de (Moritz Moeller-Herrmann)
Subject: How to check a file type (was Re: It's not a rpm......)
Date: 1999/03/06
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