On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:06:39PM +0100, Barbie wrote:
> From: "Robert Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > From: Roger Burton West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > >
> > > man 1 file
> > > man 5 magic
> > > less /usr/share/misc/magic # on many systems
> > >
> >
> > except anything written my MS of course...
>
> Which is precisely what this install of ActivePerl sits on. Luckily I have a
> Linux box too :)
It's worth grabbing the master copy of the magic database. I've found
that some Linux ones (and even more so on Solaris) tend to be a bit
incomplete.
ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/
That's the master location for the file(1) command that the BSDs use and
it appears to be quite complete. Only it appears to be down right now.
Bugger.
You could try to grab them from the FreeBSD server, but there's been
problems with that recently and it doesn't have an unpacked copy of the
source available. Double bugger.
Let's try NetBSD:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-current/src/file/Magdir/
-Dom
