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Linux magic patches for file-3.14
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Tue Dec 20 06:57:32 1994
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 12:23:55 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: quinlan@yggdrasil.com (Daniel Quinlan)
Subject: Linux magic patches for file-3.14
Keywords: file, magic, /etc/magic
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[ file(1) is a program used to determine the file type of files.
magic(5) is the database of file type information that file uses. ]
I've compiled some additions and corrections to the magic information
that comes with the file(1) program as available on tesla.ee.cornell.edu
in /pub/file-3.14.tar.gz. It adds recognition of QMAGIC binaries, LILO
disk images, groff source and output, Emacs files, TeX data, and lots of
other stuff.
The patch (and the original tar file) is available on sunsite.unc.edu
in /pub/Linux/Incoming. I expect that it will eventually be moved to
/pub/Linux/system/Misc or something like that.
Note: I will not be releasing a "new version" of file--just patches to
the current version from tesla.ee.cornell.edu. This is version "b" of
the Linux file patches.
Here is a list of what's additions to magic(5) are in the patch as well
as who did what. My apologies if I left anyone out.
* Mitchum DSouza (m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk):
additions: Linux locale message catalogs
* Peter Tobias (tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de):
fixes/cleanup: linux, zoo
additions: Linux TeX, Bash, Debian binary packages
* Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com):
fixes/cleanup: linux, zoo, audio, commands, ditroff, postscript, tex
additions: c++, groff, PostScript Type 1 fonts, HTML document text,
flex, lex description, LILO boot/chain loaders, Scheme/Lisp,
byte-compiled Emacs-Lisp, PCL (HP printer format), TeX documents,
Texinfo, GNU Info, timezone data, X11 fonts, PSF fonts, and X11
Speedo fonts.
Legalese:
These patches are being distributed in the hope that they will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
These patches produce an altered version of file-3.14, which is
available in the original form via anonymous FTP at
tesla.ee.cornell.edu in /pub/file-3.14.tar.gz.
This software was written by Ian F. Darwin and others. It is
Copyright (c) Ian F. Darwin 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992.
And here is the LSM entry:
Begin3
Title: Linux patches to file(1)
Version: Version "b" of the patches to file-3.14, December 15, 1994
Entered-date: December 15, 1994
Description: Patches to update file-3.14 for Linux
Keywords: file, magic, /etc/magic
Author: mail@sq.com (Ian F. Darwin)
guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
christos@deshaw.com (Christos Zoulas)
Maintained-by: quinlan@yggdrasil.com (Daniel Quinlan)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Misc
6kB file-3.14b.diff.gz
1kB file-3.14b.lsm
53kB file-3.14.tar.gz
Original-site: tesla.ee.cornell.edu /pub
53kB file-3.14.tar.gz
Copying-policy: BSD-like
End
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Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com>
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