bionic (1) regfiletype.1.gz

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.

                                                14 December 2016                                  REGFILETYPE(1)