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- Author: Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org>
- 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}
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