From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-06-02T16:00:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Document identification

Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:
> M. Eteum <meteum@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Super! Oh by the way, do you know if Perl or Python has it? I'm quite 
> > desperate to find the solution, therefore I'll take any solution while 
> > waiting for the Ruby modules.
> 
> Your best bet would be to find a windows port of unix's 'file' (Mac OSX
> is definitely bound to have it). Sadly, it's a very hard thing to google
> for :)

You're in luck - gnuwin32 includes a port of file.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/summary.html

All you need to do is a = `file.exe #{filename}`

martin