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Date:      Mon, 12 Apr 1999 01:15:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
To:        Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: have live system with NFS client cache problems what do i do? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904120114280.38102-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <199904120510.PAA28056@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au>

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On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Stephen McKay wrote:

> On Sunday, 11th April 1999, Brian Feldman wrote:
> 
> >This has nothing to do with DOS. In case you didn't get my other hint:
> >{"/home/green"}$ dd if=/dev/zero count=1 2>/dev/null | file -
> >standard input:              MS Windows COFF Unknown CPU
> 
> Don't ya just hate it when your mail is slow!  Sigh...

Yep ;)

You know, I think a much better idea for being in magic(5) would be
a check for lots of NULLs and calling the file "NULL data", rather than
MS Windows COFF Unknown CPU. This identification is a bug in the magic
file, really, since you can't call a short 0x0000 any kind of magic
number!

> 
> Stephen.
> 
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