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- Short: Tells what format a file is
- Author: michaels@ifi.uio.no (Michael Shuldman)
- Uploader: michaels@ifi.uio.no (Michael Shuldman)
- Type: util/cli
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- magic v0.1
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- Magic is copyright Michael Shuldman, it is
- a small utility that will attempt to determine what
- format a file is. Works in a very simple way and is quite fast.
- It is also pure and can be made resident (if the pure bit is not set, set it).
- This utility is free to use but can NOT be distributed for profit or on any
- magazine's coverdisk without WRITTEN permission from me, neither
- can it be part of a product sold for profit.
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- Fred Fish has permission to put it in his fish library should he wish to.
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- There are many formats magic does not know about, you can yourself
- help to improve this by emailing unknown formats to me, with a description
- of what the format is and example files (mail atleast 3 files of each format),
- but please mail me beforehand in case someone else has already mailed me about
- the format, let the files be as small as possible.
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- I can probably be reached as (in order of preferece):
- Internet: michaels@ifi.uio.no or
- Michael Shuldman
- Undelstadvn.58
- 1370 Asker
- Norway
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- How to use
- Write magic ? for more info, the only option perhaps needing a mention
- is verbose, it will atempt to give more info about the
- file, currently this is only supported for datatypes but I
- hope to add other "verbose" formats in the future.
- Dont be discouraged by the version number, I quite rarely make it to a
- version 1. Be sure to understand that magic makes no atempt whatsoever
- to verify that the files really are what they look like,
- as our unix man page says, "magic isent".
- Comments/bug reports should be sent by email.
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- Magic was compiled with SAS/C v6.55 and opttime.
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