[6553] in SIPB bug reports
Re: new data for file(1)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Stone)
Fri Oct 31 17:34:56 1997
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 97 17:34:41 EST
From: Larry Stone <lcs@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:56:52 -0500
> I assume your magic entries are reasonably unique, I haven't verified them.
> I've installed them in the read-write copy of the sipb locker, and they'll
> be available upon volume release tomorrow morning. You can test with:
>
> set -- myfile
> /mit/sipb/bin/file -m /afs/.sipb.mit.edu/project/sipb/share/magic "$@"
Ok, thanks -- the old magic file didn't detect applesingle or double.
> Do you expect to be submitting more magic changes soon? If so, I'll
> delay my magic submissions to the file maintainer and batch them.
Nope, just these. It's actually the other way round, I'm mining
the magic file to pervert file(1) for other uses.
-- Larry
