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authorIan Darwin <ian@darwinsys.com>1993-04-05 10:18:56 +0000
committerIan Darwin <ian@darwinsys.com>1993-04-05 10:18:56 +0000
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Refer the reader to patchlevel.h; mention Guy Harris' changes for 3.8.
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** README for file(1) Command **
-@(#) $Id: README,v 1.18 1993/01/05 13:57:48 ian Exp $
+@(#) $Id: README,v 1.19 1993/04/05 10:18:56 ian Exp $
-This is Release 3.0 of Ian Darwin's (copyright but distributable)
-file(1) command. Release 3.0 is scheduled for inclusion in the
+This is Release 3.x of Ian Darwin's (copyright but distributable)
+file(1) command. Release 3.x is scheduled for inclusion in the
4.4 BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) of UNIX-like
software, and is the standard "file" command for Linux, 386bsd,
-and other systems.
+and other systems. (See "patchlevel.h" for the exact release number).
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.
+
The prime contributor to Release 3.0 was Christos Zoulas, who put
in hundreds of lines of source code changes, including his own
ANSIfication of the code (I liked my own ANSIfication better, but