From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 21 18:08:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA06054 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:08:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA06042 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:08:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16736; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:08:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199809220108.SAA16736@austin.polstra.com> To: Terry Lambert cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the fs fun never stops In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:31:50 -0000." <199809220031.RAA27106@usr04.primenet.com> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:08:09 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The simplest is to use "strip -aout ...". > > I still find it silly that the wrapper functions don't just check > the magic number, and call the right thing. The wrappers don't do that because they don't know which command line arguments are file names. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message