Exceptions are well-known file formats (core files, tar archives)
that are known to contain binary data.
When modifying the file
-.I /etc/magic
+.I __MAGIC__
or the program itself,
.B "preserve these keywords" .
People depend on knowing that all the readable files in a directory
Any file with some invariant identifier at a small fixed
offset into the file can usually be described in this way.
The information in these files is read from the magic file
-.I /etc/magic .
+.I __MAGIC__.
.PP
If an argument appears to be an
.SM ASCII
.B \-L
option causes symlinks to be followed, as the like-named option in ls(1).
.SH FILES
-.I /etc/magic
+.I __MAGIC__
\- default list of magic numbers
.SH SEE ALSO
-.IR Magic (FILES)
+.IR magic (__SECTION__)
\- description of magic file format.
.br
.IR Strings (1), " od" (1)
command uses a magic file,
keep the old magic file around for comparison purposes
(rename it to
-.IR /etc/magic.orig ).
+.IR __MAGIC__.orig ).
.SH HISTORY
There has been a
.I file
Altered by Rob McMahon, cudcv@warwick.ac.uk, 1989, to extend the `&' operator
from simple `x&y != 0' to `x&y op z'.
.PP
-.I Strtok.c
-and
-.I getopt.c
-written by and copyright by Henry Spencer, utzoo!henry.
+Changes by Ian Darwin and various authors including
+Christos Zoulos (christos@ee.cornell.edu), 1990-1992.
.PP
This software is not subject to any license of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company or of the Regents of the University of California.
.I tar
program, and are not covered by the above restrictions.
.SH BUGS
-There must be a way to automate the construction of the Magic
+There must be a better way to automate the construction of the Magic
file from all the glop in magdir. What is it?
.PP
.I File