From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc) Subject: Re: File and /etc/magic Date: 1 Sep 1992 07:52:03 GMT
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