Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 07:25:19 -0700 From: Andy Balholm <andy@balholm.com> To: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'file' Command Giving False Positives Message-ID: <641FFF4C-5948-4AFA-9F73-FBB1A105BCAE@balholm.com>
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One thing I noticed about the file command's output might be useful: For the file in question, it says "MS-DOS executable (built-in)" For real Windows programs, it gives more information. One that I tried = said "PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit". I = remember that some others have said "COFF" instead of "PE32". So maybe = you could just assume that unless the file command is able to figure out = what _kind_ of executable the file is, it's a false positive. It depends = how likely you are to run into a really ancient DOS program (which would = probably just get the generic description).=
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