From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 3 11:44:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz (ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz [195.113.19.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF1414F13 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 11:44:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkop5230@ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz) Received: from beta.ms.mff.cuni.cz (mkop5230@beta.ms.mff.cuni.cz [195.113.16.70]) by ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA26154; Mon, 3 May 1999 20:44:12 +0200 Received: from localhost (mkop5230@localhost) by beta.ms.mff.cuni.cz (980427.SGI.8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA51874; Mon, 3 May 1999 20:44:12 +0200 (MDT) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 20:44:11 +0200 From: Milan Kopacka Reply-To: Milan Kopacka To: Chuck Robey Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux compat question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 May 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > Anyone know if linux apps use our own magic file, or if they look into > /compat/linux/etc for a magic file? I'm trying to install word perfect, > and I won't yet let it touch my FreeBSD magic file. I know only one application using magic, that's file(1). You need to run file in Linux emulation? Wordperfect has some add-ons to magic, for file(1) to be able to properly recognize Wordperfect's documents. > Maybe, anyone have a recent Linux magic file? Get "file" package from your favorite Linux mirror site. :) Milan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message