From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 18:48:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Bring things closer to today's reality.
X-Git-Tag: FILE5_05~748
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4f0dc633f697e126d35edfe93b6110687c98b8b7;p=file

Bring things closer to today's reality.
---

diff --git a/LEGAL.NOTICE b/LEGAL.NOTICE
index 0c2c7192..d1ea5564 100644
--- a/LEGAL.NOTICE
+++ b/LEGAL.NOTICE
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-$Id: LEGAL.NOTICE,v 1.14 2004/09/11 19:15:56 christos Exp $
+$Id: LEGAL.NOTICE,v 1.15 2006/05/03 18:48:33 christos Exp $
 Copyright (c) Ian F. Darwin 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995.
 Software written by Ian F. Darwin and others;
-maintained 1994-2004 Christos Zoulas.
+maintained 1994- Christos Zoulas.
 
 This software is not subject to any export provision of the United States
 Department of Commerce, and may be exported to any country or planet.
diff --git a/MAINT b/MAINT
index c711117f..614c7624 100644
--- a/MAINT
+++ b/MAINT
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Id: MAINT,v 1.5 2003/03/23 04:36:37 christos Exp $
+$Id: MAINT,v 1.6 2006/05/03 18:48:33 christos Exp $
 
 Maintenance notes:
 
@@ -18,13 +18,15 @@ short.
 - Do not distribute changed versions.
 
 People trying to be helpful occasionally put up their hacked versions
-of the file command for FTP, then the "archie" server finds and publishes
-the hacked version, and people all over the world get copies of it.
-Within a day or two I am getting email from around the world
-asking me why "my" file command won't compile!!! Needless to say this
-detracts from the limited time I have available to work on the actual
-software.  Therefore I ask you again to please NOT distribute
-your changed version.
+of the file command for anonymous FTP, and people all over the
+world get copies of the hacked versions.  Within a day or two I am
+getting email from around the world asking me why "my" file command
+won't compile!!! Needless to say this detracts from the limited
+time I have available to work on the actual software. Therefore I
+ask you again to please NOT distribute your changed version. If
+you need to make changes, please add a patch file next to the
+distribution tar, and a README file that clearly explains what you
+are trying to fix.
 
 
 Thank you for your assistance and cooperation.
diff --git a/README b/README
index 0e97732c..b4223f4b 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ** README for file(1) Command **
-@(#) $Id: README,v 1.33 2003/05/23 21:31:56 christos Exp $
+@(#) $Id: README,v 1.34 2006/05/03 18:48:33 christos Exp $
 
 This is Release 4.x of Ian Darwin's (copyright but distributable)
 file(1) command. This version is the standard "file" command for Linux,
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ and does not exist any longer.
 
 From: Kees Zeelenberg
 
-An MS-Windows (Win32) port of File-3.36 is available from
+An MS-Windows (Win32) port of File-4.17 is available from
 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
+
 File is an implementation of the Unix File(1) command.
 It knows the 'magic number' of several thousands of file types.