From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 16:34:07 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA02282 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:34:07 -0700 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA02276 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:34:06 -0700 Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14615(3)>; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:33:06 PDT Received: from localhost by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <49859>; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:32:54 -0700 X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6 4/21/95 To: "House of Debuggin'" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDi 2.0 binary compatibility question In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 95 15:28:20 PDT." <199506072228.SAA00374@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:32:45 PDT From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <95Jun8.163254pdt.49859@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In message <199506072228.SAA00374@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> you write: > (I'd like to know why file(1) only prints 'ex' instead of 'executable.') because the phrase "BSD/386 demand paged (first page unmapped) pure ex\0" is 50 bytes long, and /usr/src/usr.bin/file/file.h says #define MAXDESC 50 /* max leng of text description */ Bill