From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FBG8e-0006vR-AD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:52:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1KIm7Ox030630; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:48:07 GMT Received: from mar.at.home.lv ([62.85.19.80]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1KIX1iR018803 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:33:01 GMT Received: from mar.at.home.lv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mar.at.home.lv (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1KIX2Zj002398 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:33:02 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by mar.at.home.lv (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k1KIWsQf002393 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:32:54 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: mar.at.home.lv: martins set sender to mar@ml.lv using -f From: Martins Steinbergs Organization: - To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:32:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200602201920.07521.uwix@iway.na> In-Reply-To: <200602201920.07521.uwix@iway.na> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-13" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602202032.54074.mar@ml.lv> X-Archives-Salt: d13c2846-6d61-45a1-b29e-47a1f439e922 X-Archives-Hash: 50841ce6afa7e591140c0e99787be1b7 On Monday 20 February 2006 19:20, Uwe Thiem wrote: > Hi folks, > > this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other > linux distribution. There are two different types of presentations: *.ppt > and *.pps. The difference is that *.pps have an interpreter linked into the > document so you can run it under Windows without having Powerpoint. > > *.ppt do not cause any problems but *.pps do. If you do a "file > something.pps" it reports it as "Microsoft Office Document" without > qualifying what kind of document. > > As long as you have set all your file associations of Microsoft documents > to OpenOffice, it will work for you because OO still is a monolithic > application that handles all of them. > > This is not true if you have set file associations of Microsoft documents > to specific applications in any other office suite, including but not > limited to koffice. In the case of koffice, kword gets started, It starts > to load the presentation and decides correctly that this isn't a word > document. > > So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts > here that can extent the magic file to recognise *.pps files correctly? > > Would be great if we could get that sorted out. > > I tried myself. Unfortunately, I am not a magic file expert and failed > badly. :-( > > Uwe > > -- > Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? most simple solution i can give is to rename file.pps to file.ppt for my understanding pps does only that that opening it starts slide show not the editor and powerpoint installation still has to be present martins -- Linux 2.6.15-ck3-r1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 20:27:21 up 15:55, 7 users, load average: 1.74, 1.71, 1.63 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list