help with file recovery?

[David Timms]

Todd Denniston wrote:
> Todd Denniston wrote, On 05/09/2008 03:31 PM:
>> Dave Stevens wrote, On 05/09/2008 03:02 PM:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a MS Word file from several years ago that I want to look at. 
>>
>> Are you sure it is Word and not Write or Works?
Todd: I see you got a workaround, however, I would be interested to know 
what the following thinks the file type is ?
$ file myunknownfile"

This relies on content not file extension.