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| 1.TH MAGIC __FSECTION__ "Public Domain" 2.\" install as magic.4 on USG, magic.5 on V7 or Berkeley systems. 3.SH NAME 4magic \- file command's magic number file 5.SH DESCRIPTION 6This manual page documents the format of the magic file as 7used by the 8.BR file (__CSECTION__) --- 156 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 165in the file. Indirect offsets are of the form: 166.BI (( x [.[bslBSL]][+-][ y ]). 167The value of 168.I x 169is used as an offset in the file. A byte, short or long is read at that offset 170depending on the 171.B [bslBSL] 172type specifier. The capitalized types interpret the number as a big endian | 1.TH MAGIC __FSECTION__ "Public Domain" 2.\" install as magic.4 on USG, magic.5 on V7 or Berkeley systems. 3.SH NAME 4magic \- file command's magic number file 5.SH DESCRIPTION 6This manual page documents the format of the magic file as 7used by the 8.BR file (__CSECTION__) --- 156 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 165in the file. Indirect offsets are of the form: 166.BI (( x [.[bslBSL]][+-][ y ]). 167The value of 168.I x 169is used as an offset in the file. A byte, short or long is read at that offset 170depending on the 171.B [bslBSL] 172type specifier. The capitalized types interpret the number as a big endian |
| 173value, whereas the small letter versions interpet the number as a little | 173value, whereas the small letter versions interpret the number as a little |
| 174endian value. To that number the value of 175.I y 176is added and the result is used as an offset in the file. The default type 177if one is not specified is long. 178.PP 179Sometimes you do not know the exact offset as this depends on the length of 180preceding fields. You can specify an offset relative to the end of the 181last uplevel field (of course this may only be done for sublevel tests, i.e. --- 32 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 214.\" Date: 3 Sep 85 08:19:07 GMT 215.\" Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. 216.\" Lines: 136 217.\" 218.\" Here's a manual page for the format accepted by the "file" made by adding 219.\" the changes I posted to the S5R2 version. 220.\" 221.\" Modified for Ian Darwin's version of the file command. | 174endian value. To that number the value of 175.I y 176is added and the result is used as an offset in the file. The default type 177if one is not specified is long. 178.PP 179Sometimes you do not know the exact offset as this depends on the length of 180preceding fields. You can specify an offset relative to the end of the 181last uplevel field (of course this may only be done for sublevel tests, i.e. --- 32 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 214.\" Date: 3 Sep 85 08:19:07 GMT 215.\" Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. 216.\" Lines: 136 217.\" 218.\" Here's a manual page for the format accepted by the "file" made by adding 219.\" the changes I posted to the S5R2 version. 220.\" 221.\" Modified for Ian Darwin's version of the file command. |
| 222.\" @(#)$Id: magic.man,v 1.19 2002/07/03 18:26:38 christos Exp $ | 222.\" @(#)$Id: magic.man,v 1.20 2003/02/08 18:33:53 christos Exp $ |