NAME¶
regfiletype - Identify the formats of Regina data files
SYNOPSIS¶
regfiletype file ...
DESCRIPTION¶
This utility determines which file format a given Regina data file is in. You
may pass multiple files on the command line; the format of each file will be
written to standard output.
Only Regina's modern XML-based file formats are recognised (both
compressed and uncompressed). In its very early years, Regina used an
impenetrable and undocumented binary format; this was replaced with XML in
2002 (Regina 3.0), and support for this format was removed completely
in 2013 (Regina 4.94). If you still need to recognise and/or read
files in this ancient binary format, you will need to download
Regina 4.93.
MACOS X USERS¶
If you downloaded a drag-and-drop app bundle, this utility is shipped inside it.
If you dragged Regina to the main Applications folder, you can run it as
/Applications/Regina.app/Contents/MacOS/regfiletype.
WINDOWS USERS¶
The command-line utilities are installed beneath the Program Files
directory; on some machines this directory is called
Program Files (x86). You can start this utility by
running c:\Program Files\Regina\Regina 5.1\bin\regfiletype.exe.
SEE ALSO¶
regconvert, regina-gui.
AUTHOR¶
This utility was written by Benjamin Burton <bab@maths.uq.edu.au>. Many
people have been involved in the development of Regina; see the users'
handbook for a full list of credits.