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Date:      Sat, 11 May 1996 20:44:40 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, FreeBSD-Ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Object files/formats
Message-ID:  <199605111844.UAA01640@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <14584.831814161@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "May 11, 96 04:29:21 am"

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > tclIO.o: NetBSD/i386 position independent object file not stripped
> 
> They all say that.  File's magic information has misidentified our
> object files for as long as I can remember now - I noted this quite
> a few months back myself, but so far nobody has done the hacking on
> /etc/magic necessary to fix it. :)

C'mon, they have been identified as ``PDP-11 pure executable not
stripped'' previously. :-)

Do other poeple also feel like me in that /etc/magic should better be
moved to /usr/share/misc/?  It's nothing to do with machine-dependant
configuration.  (Unlike termcap, i don't think there's anything else
than /usr/bin/file actually using this file at all.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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