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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:54:26 -0800
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Sam Drinkard <sam@wa4phy.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: file broken 
Message-ID:  <200112122254.fBCMsQP21381@bmah.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C17DD82.73F632A9@vortex.wa4phy.net> 
References:  <3C17DD82.73F632A9@vortex.wa4phy.net>

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If memory serves me right, Sam Drinkard wrote:
> Just discovered the utility /usr/share/misc/file is either broken or has
> changed behavior.  Now, in order to determine what a file is, I must
> append the -i switch.  Did I miss or mess something up in the upgrade
> from 4.3-R to 4.4-Stable?

Errr...what utility are you running?  file(1) seems to work OK for 
me...it's been through at least one update since 4.3-RELEASE, IIRC.

nimitz:bmah% file .emacs
.emacs: Lisp/Scheme program text
nimitz:bmah% which file
/usr/bin/file
nimitz:bmah% ls /usr/share/misc/file
ls: /usr/share/misc/file: No such file or directory
nimitz:bmah% uname -a
FreeBSD nimitz.packetdesign.com 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #15: Mon Dec  3 16:27:53 PST 2001     root@nimitz.packetdesign.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NIMITZ  i386

Bruce.



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