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authorChristos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>2001-07-23 21:30:22 +0000
committerChristos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>2001-07-23 21:30:22 +0000
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Add mention of the win32 version of file.
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** README for file(1) Command **
-@(#) $Id: README,v 1.24 2001/03/12 05:05:57 christos Exp $
+@(#) $Id: README,v 1.25 2001/07/23 21:30:22 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,
@@ -90,11 +90,9 @@ Cres, # 810, Toronto, Ontario CANADA M8X 2W4. Phone: 416-239-4801 or
and browsing, Unix text processing, and customised products on Unix,
DOS and Mac.
-From Kees Zeelenberg
+From: Kees Zeelenberg
-File 3.33 is available from Simtelnet and its mirrors:
-ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/file333b.zip
-Documentation and sources are available from the same folder.
-File determines the file type of a given file. It is an implementation
-of the Unix file(1) command. It knows the 'magic number' of some 4000
-files.
+An MS-Windows (Win32) port of File-3.36 is available from
+http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
+File is an implementation of the Unix File(1) command.
+It knows the 'magic number' of several thousands of file types.