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- From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: File and /etc/magic
- Message-ID: <5732@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 07:52:03 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.023754.9074@diomedes.robots.ox.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk (A. V. le Blanc)
- Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester
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- In article <1992Sep1.023754.9074@diomedes.robots.ox.ac.uk> jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs) writes:
- >I just put up the linux port of file (1) on my system, but unfortunatly it
- >doesn't come with the /etc/magic entries for any linux files.
- > Has anyone entered the magic numbers for the different types of linux
- >executables and for coredumps (they seem to have the same magic as old sun2
- >binaries!).
-
- The /etc/magic which I have been distributing for the MCC interim versions
- of Linux can be found in mcc-interim/0.97p2/source_files/texts.tar.Z; it
- handles everything correctly except core files, I think.
-
- Improvements to this or to any other aspect of MCC interim Linux are
- gratefully accepted! I'd be particularly happy if someone has a working
- version of 'script'. Meanwhile, I am thinking of an info/emacs combination,
- where the info pages (describing gcc, tar, gdb, termcap, and other useful
- things) can be accessed by info if you don't want emacs.
-
- -- Owen
- LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
-