office 2007 files being treated as archives

[Scott Silva]

Alex Neuman van der Hans spake the following on 9/6/2007 9:04 PM:
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> Julian Field wrote:
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>> Add a new line to filename.rules.conf (somewhere near the top) that 
>> says this:
>> allow   \.xml\.rel$   -   -
>> Make sure the 4 "words" are separated with tab characters and not 
>> spaces. This (along with its partner filetype.rules.conf) is the only 
>> place where tab characters must be used, as the regular expression 
>> matching the filename, and the reports (which are just "-" for an 
>> "allow" rule) could also contain spaces.
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> This could work - but I've already had other problems with Office 2007 
> files. I don't recall exactly what right now - I implemented something 
> to get it out of the way and forgot about it, but I think it was 
> similar. It would be a good thing if anybody else comes out and mentions 
> any details regarding this so we can take proper action.
> 
> Anybody here know why these files are treated as archives? Any other 
> light that could be shed on the subject might help to better deal with 
> these files, since we're all going to be finding them more often as 
> people start "upgrading" to Office 2007.
If you look at the spec they are an archive. Multiple files in a container 
which I believe is a zip file.

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