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To: faried nawaz <nawaz921@cs.uidaho.edu>
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Subject: Re: `file', BSD/i386 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jul 1996 01:29:06 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 02:10:27 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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And this is correct.  Since it's apparently hard to tell some of the
various *BSD binaries apart, they're now lumped into a more generic
category.  Better than having them idenfied as NetBSD or PDP-11
execs/binaries now, I guess. :-)

					Jordan


> 
> Hi,
> 
> All my executables are being recognized as BSD/i386:
> 
> ; file /bin/ls
> /bin/ls: BSD/i386 compact demand paged executable
> ; file /usr/local/bin/bash
> /usr/local/bin/bash: BSD/i386 compact demand paged dynamically linked executa
ble
> ; file /usr/bin/man
> /usr/bin/man: BSD/i386 compact demand paged dynamically linked executable
> ; 
> 
> I last sup'd on Saturday, July 6th.
> 
> 
> faried.