On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:23:08AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
> As part of my FreshPorts fun, I decided that after fetching a file from 
> cvsweb, I should make sure the fetch worked. I decided to do that via 
> file(1) and inspect the output. I was testing for ASCII, but that appears 
> to not be good enough. Now I just test for HTML and reverse the sense of 
> the test.
> 
> Here was the most amusing output:
> 
> $ file -b /usr/home/dan/ports/databases/mysql++/Makefile
> Apple Old Partition data block size: 21117 first type: AS_CONFIGURE=    
> yes, number of blocks: 1702047597,
> 
> $ head /usr/home/dan/ports/databases/mysql++/Makefile
> # ports collection makefile for:        MySQL++
> # Date created:                         20th July 2000
> # Whom:                                 Miklos Niedermayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> #
> # $FreeBSD: ports/databases/mysql++/Makefile,v 1.10 2002/02/11 13:15:14 
> ijliao Exp $
> #
> 
> PORTNAME=       mysql++
> PORTVERSION=    1.7.9
> CATEGORIES=     databases devel

As if anyone cares,

  # ports collection makefile for:      MySQL++
  # Date created:                               20th July 2000
  # Whom:                                       Miklos Niedermayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  #
  # $FreeBSD: ports/databases/mysql++/Makefile,v 1.10 2002/02/11 13:15:14 ijliao Exp $
  #

  PORTNAME=     mysql++
  PORTVERSION=  1.7.9
  CATEGORIES=   databases devel
  MASTER_SITES= ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/MySQL/Downloads/mysql++/ \
                ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/db/mysql/Downloads/mysql++/ \
                ftp://mirror.sit.wisc.edu/mirrors/mysql/Downloads/mysql++/

  MAINTAINER=   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  LIB_DEPENDS=  mysqlclient.10:${PORTSDIR}/databases/mysql323-client
                                    ^^

It's those two characters, 0x5453, at an offset of 0x200 bytes that
causes the match. Gotta love file(1).
-- 
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