Author: Michael Piefel Description: FIXME, and #417511. --- a/doc/file.man +++ b/doc/file.man @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ or non-printable). Exceptions are well-known file formats (core files, tar archives) that are known to contain binary data. -When modifying magic files or the program itself, make sure to +When adding local definitions to /etc/magic, make sure to .Em "preserve these keywords" . Users depend on knowing that all the readable files in a directory have the word @@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ has been applied by extension to data files. Any file with some invariant identifier at a small fixed offset into the file can usually be described in this way. -The information identifying these files is read from the compiled +The information identifying these files is read from /etc/magic +and the compiled magic file .Pa __MAGIC__.mgc , or the files in the directory @@ -453,12 +454,6 @@ The order of entries in the magic file is significant. Depending on what system you are using, the order that they are put together may be incorrect. -If your old -.Nm -command uses a magic file, -keep the old magic file around for comparison purposes -(rename it to -.Pa __MAGIC__.orig ) . .Sh EXAMPLES .Bd -literal -offset indent $ file file.c file /dev/{wd0a,hda}