From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 13:58:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD3A1065670 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:58:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D0C8FC19 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:58:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [0.0.0.0] (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o62DwNMR079345 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 08:58:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <4C2DF07F.1020509@tundraware.com> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:58:23 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk Organization: TundraWare Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.5 (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]); Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:58:23 -0500 (CDT) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: o62DwNMR079345 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: 'file' Command Giving False Positives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:58:35 -0000 I have a data file with the content: LZasdadqjwjqwjqwjeqwe 'file' (incorrectly) reports this as an MS-DOS executable. Does anyone happen to know the proper changes to 'magic' that would fix this? Thanks, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com