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From: donn@utah-cs.UUCP (Donn Seeley)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: bug in 4.3bsd file.c
Message-ID: <3857@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Jul-86 01:28:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 18 01:28:46 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jul-86 01:01:46 EDT
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Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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Keywords: silliness

Uh, Turk, the original code's lack of parentheses was quite proper.  I
suspect that you had another problem -- that you weren't running the
binary which was generated from the source file.  The change to
identify compressed files was made after the 4.3 beta distribution; run
'what' on the old binary to see if you had the old (rev. 4.10) or the
new (4.12) code.  The 4.3 distribution 'file' works fine on compressed
files (I tried it at Berkeley; Utah's still running 4.3 beta, alas).

There WAS a nasty parenthesis bug in the 4.10 version, but it was a
problem with the code for distinguishing character devices from block
devices!  The bug was fixed in 4.12, with the immortal sccs comment,
'who wrote this code anyway?'

Donn Seeley    University of Utah CS Dept    donn@utah-cs.arpa
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