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- From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
- Subject: Re: UNIX 'file' program for OS/2?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.215452.1@ducvax.auburn.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 03:54:52 GMT
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- In article <1daie3INN79v@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>, ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
- >
- > Is anyone sitting on an OS/2 port of the UNIX file command? Or maybe
- > you know where source code is? Also, anyone know where I can get a good
- > list of OS/2 specific magic entries?
-
- While learning to use the pascal-to-c translator p2c (on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu),
- I played with:
- F I L E T Y P E 1 . 1
- ======================
-
- Free Software by TapirSoft Gisbert W.Selke
- August 1991
- TapirSoft
- Gisbert W.Selke
- Ermekeilstrasse 28
- D-5300 Bonn 1
- Germany
- E-Mail: <s00100@dbnrhrz1.bitnet>
-
- It compiled fairly easily, but the overhead of the p2c conversion gave a
- 50k executable, if I recall correctly (I did not keep the executable).
-
- There is an 11k magic file with the program (but it does not have
- OS/2 specific stuff). I probably found this at
- simtel20.army.mil as filtyp11.zip, but I'm not certain.
-
- --
- --Darrel Hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
-