You know that somewhere on the MUD is one object. But you don\'t know what stats it has. You can look on it this way and you may choice if it is good enough to fight with its owner. But some objects are resistant to this spell, and no item can be identified this way before some player get it, because since such event there is not enough information about this item in general knowledge database of the world, where this spell gets all information.

See also: identify, visual identify