From: Ian Darwin Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1992 13:25:28 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Zoulos' changes for automatic installation. X-Git-Tag: FILE3_27~268 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3121af015147002f10f2fc2f382bab4928a57102;p=file Zoulos' changes for automatic installation. --- diff --git a/doc/file.man b/doc/file.man index 50183532..ed7d8053 100644 --- a/doc/file.man +++ b/doc/file.man @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ meaning anything else (data is usually `binary' or non-printable). 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 @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ The concept of `magic number' 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 in these files is read from the magic file -.I /etc/magic . +.I __MAGIC__. .PP If an argument appears to be an .SM ASCII @@ -125,10 +125,10 @@ The .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) @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ If your old 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 @@ -203,10 +203,8 @@ postal address: P.O. Box 603, Station F, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M4Y 2L8. 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. @@ -244,7 +242,7 @@ were written by John Gilmore from his public-domain .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