:) you guys make me laugh :)

file comes with cygwin/mingw

mimetype is pure-perl but it does rely on shared-mime-info, for win32 type platforms you can get by with http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/dependencies/shared-mime-info-0.30.zip

$ mimetype   junk.doc
junk.doc: application/msword

$ mimetype   junk.xls
junk.xls: application/vnd.ms-excel

$ mimetype   junk.xlsx
junk.xlsx: application/zip

$ mimetype   junk.docx
junk.xlsx: application/zip
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