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| 1** README for file(1) Command ** | 1** README for file(1) Command ** |
| 2@(#) $File: README,v 1.42 2009/02/14 15:16:24 christos Exp $ | 2@(#) $File: README,v 1.44 2011/03/24 13:03:39 rrt Exp $ |
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| 4E-mail: christos@astron.com | |
| 5Mailing List: file@mx.gw.com | 4Mailing List: file@mx.gw.com |
| 5Bug tracker: http://bugs.gw.com/ 6E-mail: christos@astron.com |
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| 6 7Phone: Do not even think of telephoning me about this program. Send cash first! 8 9This is Release 5.x of Ian Darwin's (copyright but distributable) | 7 8Phone: Do not even think of telephoning me about this program. Send cash first! 9 10This is Release 5.x of Ian Darwin's (copyright but distributable) |
| 10file(1) command. This version is the standard "file" command for Linux, | 11file(1) command, an implementation of the Unix File(1) command. 12It knows the 'magic number' of several thousands of file types. 13This version is the standard "file" command for Linux, |
| 11*BSD, and other systems. (See "patchlevel.h" for the exact release number). 12 | 14*BSD, and other systems. (See "patchlevel.h" for the exact release number). 15 |
| 16You can download the latest version of file from: 17 18 ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/ 19 20A public read-only git repository is available at: 21 22 https://github.com/glensc/file 23 |
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| 13The major changes for 5.x are CDF file parsing, indirect magic, and 14overhaul in mime and ascii encoding handling. 15 16The major feature of 4.x is the refactoring of the code into a library, 17and the re-write of the file command in terms of that library. The library 18itself, libmagic can be used by 3rd party programs that wish to identify 19file types without having to fork() and exec() file. The prime contributor 20for 4.0 was M\xe5ns Rullg\xe5rd. --- 76 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 97 * One line short summary 98 * Optional long description 99 * File extension, if applicable 100 * Full name and contact method (for discussion when entry has problem) 101 * Further reference, such as documentation of format 102 103------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 104 | 24The major changes for 5.x are CDF file parsing, indirect magic, and 25overhaul in mime and ascii encoding handling. 26 27The major feature of 4.x is the refactoring of the code into a library, 28and the re-write of the file command in terms of that library. The library 29itself, libmagic can be used by 3rd party programs that wish to identify 30file types without having to fork() and exec() file. The prime contributor 31for 4.0 was M\xe5ns Rullg\xe5rd. --- 76 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 108 * One line short summary 109 * Optional long description 110 * File extension, if applicable 111 * Full name and contact method (for discussion when entry has problem) 112 * Further reference, such as documentation of format 113 114------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 115 |
| 105You can download the latest version of file from: 106 107 ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/ 108 109If your gzip sometimes fails to decompress things complaining about a short 110file, apply this patch [which is going to be in the next version of gzip]: 111*** - Tue Oct 29 02:06:35 1996 112--- util.c Sun Jul 21 21:51:38 1996 113*** 106,111 **** 114--- 108,114 ---- 115 116 if (insize == 0) { 117 if (eof_ok) return EOF; 118+ flush_window(); 119 read_error(); 120 } 121 bytes_in += (ulg)insize; 122 | |
| 123Parts of this software were developed at SoftQuad Inc., developers 124of SGML/HTML/XML publishing software, in Toronto, Canada. | 116Parts of this software were developed at SoftQuad Inc., developers 117of SGML/HTML/XML publishing software, in Toronto, Canada. |
| 125SoftQuad was swallowed up by Corel in 2002 126and does not exist any longer. 127 128From: Kees Zeelenberg 129 130An MS-Windows (Win32) port of File-4.17 is available from 131http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ 132 133File is an implementation of the Unix File(1) command. 134It knows the 'magic number' of several thousands of file types. | 118SoftQuad was swallowed up by Corel in 2002 and does not exist any longer. |