Re: Improving "file" (was Re: Making Solaris 2.1 smarter...)

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From: DaviD W. Sanderson
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:34

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In article <16320@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>However, don't let me dissuade you from writing one in "perl"

I have already done so, more or less.  I call my program 'magic'.  I
posted an early version in alt.sources some time ago.  I have a
significantly enlarged and speeded-up version which I'll post sometime
this spring, after I'm done with my smiley book.

In any case, 'magic' doesn't use an external configuration file.  All
the smarts are built in, and since it has the full power of perl it can
recognize things that even Guy's proposed extensions to the /etc/magic
file format can't handle.

DaviD W. Sanderson (dws@ssec.wisc.edu)

	"The Noah Webster of smileys is David Sanderson"
		- The Wall Street Journal, 15 Sep 1992

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