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| author | Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com> | 2002-05-16 18:45:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com> | 2002-05-16 18:45:56 +0000 |
| commit | 5cd9c400fcbeee496f8f47e45dc276587bf46a39 (patch) | |
| tree | 51ad642c3ec86eaf927cef36e79381aed369e080 /README | |
| parent | 272dcf3333ae106d44ab0250cd71b6367fb426bf (diff) | |
| download | file-git-5cd9c400fcbeee496f8f47e45dc276587bf46a39.tar.gz | |
- pt_note elf additions from NetBSD
- EMX os specific changes (Alexander Mai)
- stdint.h detection, acconfig.h fixes (Maciej W. Rozycki, Franz Korntner)
- regex file additions (Kim Cromie)
- getopt_long support and misc cleanups (Michael Piefel)
- many magic fixes and additions
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ** README for file(1) Command ** -@(#) $Id: README,v 1.25 2001/07/23 21:30:22 christos Exp $ +@(#) $Id: README,v 1.26 2002/05/16 18:45:56 christos Exp $ This is Release 3.x of Ian Darwin's (copyright but distributable) file(1) command. This version is the standard "file" command for Linux, @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ file(1) command. This version is the standard "file" command for Linux, UNIX is a trademark of UNIX System Laboratories. The prime contributor to Release 3.8 was Guy Harris, who put in megachanges -including byte-order independance. +including byte-order independence. The prime contributor to Release 3.0 was Christos Zoulas, who put in hundreds of lines of source code changes, including his own @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Makefile - read this next, adapt it as needed (particularly the man page layouts), type "make" to compile, "make try" to try it out against your old version. Expect some diffs, particularly since your original - file(1) may not grok the imbedded-space ("\ ") in + file(1) may not grok the embedded-space ("\ ") in the current magic file, or may even not use the magic file. apprentice.c - parses /etc/magic to learn magic @@ -61,9 +61,8 @@ magdir - directory of /etc/magic pieces magdir/Makefile - ADJUST THIS FOR YOUR CONFIGURATION names.h - header file for ascmagic.c softmagic.c - 2nd set of tests, based on /etc/magic -readelf.[ch] - Standalone elf parsing code. +readelf.[ch] - Stand-alone elf parsing code. compress.c - on-the-fly decompression. -internat.c - recognize international `text' files. print.c - print results, errors, warnings. If your gzip sometimes fails to decompress things complaining about a short |