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From: nick@nswitgould.OZ (Nick Andrew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: New program: file.c
Message-ID: <8550@nswitgould.OZ>
Date: 12 May 88 02:18:14 GMT
References: <707@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Comp Sci, NSWIT, Australia
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in article <707@ast.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) says:
> 
> Here is a primitive file.c  If anyone thinks he or she can tell the
> difference between French and English, here's your big chance.  I knocked
> this off in an hour, so it's not real smart.  Improvements are welcome.
> 
	... primitive file.c follows ...


	Some weeks ago, I ported the public domain file(1) from the
comp.sources.unix distribution (v13i027 and v13i028). It works very well,
though I didn't take the time to add definitions for Minix a.out files or
archives.

	I seem to recall a few changes required in the Minix /usr/include
files, most notably sys/types.h and sys/stat.h.  I had already made these
and some other changes to the library (eg adding John Gilmore's pd Getopt).
The location of the "magic" file was changed to /usr/lib/magic, because my
hard disk partition 1 is mounted on /usr (helps with portability) and /etc
is still on the ramdisk.

	If there is demand, I'll post my changes to the net.

Nick.