One thing I noticed about the file command's output might be useful:
For the file in question, it says MS-DOS executable (built-in)
For real Windows programs, it gives more information. One that I tried said
PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit. I remember that some
others
I have a data file with the content:
LZasdadqjwjqwjqwjeqwe
'file' (incorrectly) reports this as an MS-DOS executable.
Does anyone happen to know the proper changes to 'magic' that would
fix this?
Thanks,
--
Tim
In the last episode (Jul 02), Tim Daneliuk said:
I have a data file with the content:
LZasdadqjwjqwjqwjeqwe
'file' (incorrectly) reports this as an MS-DOS executable.
I dunno; if I create a file a.exe on my XP system with those contents, I
can run it from a cmd prompt, and it doesn't
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes:
I have a data file with the content:
LZasdadqjwjqwjqwjeqwe
'file' (incorrectly) reports this as an MS-DOS executable.
Why is it incorrect? LZ as the first two bytes in a file is (unless
my memory is badly mistaken) exactly what the old
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:25:20 -0400, Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:
Why is it incorrect? LZ as the first two bytes in a file is (unless
my memory is badly mistaken) exactly what the old command.com looked for
as the flag of an executable.
If I ask *my* memory,
On 7/2/2010 10:35 AM, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:25:20 -0400, Lowell
Gilbertfreebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:
Why is it incorrect? LZ as the first two bytes in a file is (unless
my memory is badly mistaken) exactly what the old command.com looked for
as the flag of
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 05:35:04PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:25:20 -0400, Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:
Why is it incorrect? LZ as the first two bytes in a file is (unless
my memory is badly mistaken) exactly what the old command.com
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes:
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:25:20 -0400, Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:
Why is it incorrect? LZ as the first two bytes in a file is (unless
my memory is badly mistaken) exactly what the old command.com looked for
as the flag of
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:23:24 -0400, Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:
Apparently, your memory is better than mine, because that was indeed
what I was thinking of. Which leads to the question of why magic(5)
lists LZ as representing MS-DOS executable (built-in).
On 7/2/2010 1:42 PM, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:23:24 -0400, Lowell
Gilbertfreebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:
Apparently, your memory is better than mine, because that was indeed
what I was thinking of. Which leads to the question of why magic(5)
lists LZ as
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes:
At this point, I'm inclined to believe that 'file' alone is
insufficient to do this and, at best - even with more tools -
it's going to be a probabilities game - i.e. What percentage
of false positives is acceptable?
file(1) is only intended to be a
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