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From: drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: file command extension
Message-ID: <25352@adm.brl.mil>
Date: 27 Dec 90 17:56:07 GMT
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I want to do something that is probably simple but I don't see how to
do it.  Specifically, I want to teach the file command on a Sun4
running SunOS 4.1 to correctly recognize and describe an HP9K300
HP-UX7.0 binary executable.  Sun3s and Sun4s already recognize
executables for the other architecture but now I want to handle formats
from another vndor.  More generally, I'd like to setup file to
recognize non-local executable formats. Can this be done simply with
the /etc/magic file?  If so, please *mail* me what I need to do.

	Thanks,
	 David