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What Is It?! is a hopefully useful utility. The main purpose is to identify
files and report on their format. Most of the recognition is through bin-
ary means, meaning if the file's extension is renamed the utility will still
properly identify it. Obviously since some binary file headers are only a
few bytes long, there will be the occasional mistake (the longer the header
the higher the accuracy.)
In addition the utility, upon failing a binary check, will display a file
extension match.
Other features include: Binary histograms, and for image files such as GIF,
TARGA, JPEG and even Autodesk Animator FLI and FLIC files it will display
extra information, such as resolution, number of colors, number of frames
and on some formats, the compression type used. GIF, TARGA, JPEG and FLI
files can have a 4DOS/NDOS description added listing this information.
WHATIS DOCS will display the full documentation file (with an option to
write the docs as a text file.) WHATIS by itself will list all the
command-line parameters.
WHATIS is free, and is without warranty.