Get filetype of files without extension

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Hi,

When you have activated the explorer option "hide known file
extensions" and you mail an attachment, on the receiving computer, the
extension has been lost.

With MS Word documents, this is no problem, the file will
automatically be opened with MS Word.
With pdf documents, this isn't the same... you get a dialog to choose
the right program (but when you open this, you can see PDF1.2).

Is it possible to programmatically get the file-type or extension from
those files?

Thanks in advance,

Netfreaky

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