[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54064] Behavior of open with unknown or non-existing files

[Pantxo Diribarne]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #54064 (project octave):

I made an equivalent implementation (see attached) with Qt's mimedatabase
class and it doesn't look as good as libmagic. Images are well recognized,
data files not so well:


fmt = -v7
text/plain

fmt = -binary
application/octet-stream

fmt = -text
text/plain

fmt = -zip
application/gzip

fmt = -hdf5
application/x-hdf


Matlab's mat format is seen as plain text, and Octave's binary format is seen
as generic binary data. In either case the "comment ()" property doesn't give
more hint on the nature of the data.

(file #44309)
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