Learning, need clarification

[Plutocrat]

David Christopher wrote on Saturday, 14 February, 2015 12:13 AM:
> If you can read the .gnucash file as text after uncompressing it, you are
>>using the XML back end. As of now, unless you are trying to do something
>>that GnuCash doesn't fully support, it should not matter, as a user, which
>>backend you use, except that the SQL backend isn't considered ready for
>>default usage.

Just as a random thought, Linux has a useful utility called 'file' which will tell you what type a file is. You run
	file filename.ext
... and it will tell you whether its a text file (XML), zip file or Sqlite file.

It can also be downloaded for Windows here
	http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/file.htm

This might help future GnuCash users figure out which backend they are using.

P.