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- Author: Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org>
- Description: FIXME, and #417511.
- diff -Naurp file.orig/doc/file.man file/doc/file.man
- --- file.orig/doc/file.man 2008-11-06 23:18:35.000000000 +0000
- +++ file/doc/file.man 2009-02-18 12:28:42.000000000 +0000
- @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ meaning anything else (data is usually
- 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
- @@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ The concept of a
- 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 the compiled
- magic file
- .Pa __MAGIC__.mgc ,
- or the files in the directory
- @@ -325,6 +326,11 @@ will not attempt to open
- adds
- .Sq .mgc
- to the value of this variable as appropriate.
- +However,
- +.Pa file
- +has to exist in order for
- +.Pa file.mime
- +to be considered.
- The environment variable
- .Dv POSIXLY_CORRECT
- controls (on systems that support symbolic links), whether
- @@ -400,12 +406,6 @@ will be distributed periodically.
- 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}
- @@ -547,3 +547,8 @@ on
- .Dv ftp.astron.com
- in the directory
- .Dv /pub/file/file-X.YZ.tar.gz
- +.Pp
- +This Debian version adds a number of new magic entries. It can be
- +obtained from every site carrying a Debian distribution (that is
- +.Dv ftp.debian.org
- +and mirrors).
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