Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-29 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:55:24 MST, "David O'Brien" wrote: My major Duh!! If Christos sees this thread, my apologies. Hehe, now you know how it feels to be the guy who calls you Brian. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-29 Thread Andy Doran
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:55:24 MST, "David O'Brien" wrote: My major Duh!! If Christos sees this thread, my apologies. David, I was trying to be helpful; sorry if my msg came across wrong. - ad To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-29 Thread David O'Brien
My major Duh!! If Christos sees this thread, my apologies. David, I was trying to be helpful; sorry if my msg came across wrong. ^ Not in the least. I was being stupid and that's all. I'm certainly not mad about

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-29 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:55:24 MST, David O'Brien wrote: My major Duh!! If Christos sees this thread, my apologies. Hehe, now you know how it feels to be the guy who calls you Brian. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-29 Thread Andy Doran
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:55:24 MST, David O'Brien wrote: My major Duh!! If Christos sees this thread, my apologies. David, I was trying to be helpful; sorry if my msg came across wrong. - ad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-29 Thread David O'Brien
My major Duh!! If Christos sees this thread, my apologies. David, I was trying to be helpful; sorry if my msg came across wrong. ^ Not in the least. I was being stupid and that's all. I'm certainly not mad about anything.

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-28 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:20:40 MST, "David O'Brien" wrote: My advice would be to submit his PR to Chris Demtrito(sp?), file's maintainer. Then import NetBSD's file (Chris is a NetBSD guy). Hmmm. So file(1) is a contrib candidate? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-28 Thread Andy Doran
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:20:40 MST, "David O'Brien" wrote: My advice would be to submit his PR to Chris Demtrito(sp?), file's maintainer. Then import NetBSD's file (Chris is a NetBSD guy). You may want to verify this. I'm pretty sure that Christos Zoulas (another NetBSD guy) maintains

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-28 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:03:25 +0100, Andy Doran wrote: You may want to verify this. I'm pretty sure that Christos Zoulas (another NetBSD guy) maintains file(1): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confirmed. Other than the mistaken name, I think David obsoleted further discussion, since it really is the best

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-28 Thread David O'Brien
My advice would be to submit his PR to Chris Demtrito(sp?), file's You may want to verify this. I'm pretty sure that Christos Zoulas (another NetBSD guy) maintains file(1): [EMAIL PROTECTED] My major Duh!! If Christos sees this thread, my apologies. There is no excuse for me not

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-28 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:20:40 MST, David O'Brien wrote: My advice would be to submit his PR to Chris Demtrito(sp?), file's maintainer. Then import NetBSD's file (Chris is a NetBSD guy). Hmmm. So file(1) is a contrib candidate? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-28 Thread Andy Doran
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:20:40 MST, David O'Brien wrote: My advice would be to submit his PR to Chris Demtrito(sp?), file's maintainer. Then import NetBSD's file (Chris is a NetBSD guy). You may want to verify this. I'm pretty sure that Christos Zoulas (another NetBSD guy) maintains file(1):

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-28 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:03:25 +0100, Andy Doran wrote: You may want to verify this. I'm pretty sure that Christos Zoulas (another NetBSD guy) maintains file(1): chris...@zoulas.com. Confirmed. Other than the mistaken name, I think David obsoleted further discussion, since it really is the

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-28 Thread David O'Brien
My advice would be to submit his PR to Chris Demtrito(sp?), file's You may want to verify this. I'm pretty sure that Christos Zoulas (another NetBSD guy) maintains file(1): chris...@zoulas.com. My major Duh!! If Christos sees this thread, my apologies. There is no excuse for me not

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-27 Thread David O'Brien
I've had some interesting comments from David Bushong, motivating for inclusion of his Magdir candidate on PR 12554. He makes a strong case for a bloated file(1) Magdir. The only thing we're battling with is a filename for his submission. My advice would be to submit his PR to Chris

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-27 Thread David O'Brien
I've had some interesting comments from David Bushong, motivating for inclusion of his Magdir candidate on PR 12554. He makes a strong case for a bloated file(1) Magdir. The only thing we're battling with is a filename for his submission. My advice would be to submit his PR to Chris

file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, I've had some interesting comments from David Bushong, motivating for inclusion of his Magdir candidate on PR 12554. He makes a strong case for a bloated file(1) Magdir. The only thing we're battling with is a filename for his submission. Just because a bloated file(1) magic database

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:30:08 +0200, Mark Murray wrote: You could start with "WinEXE". Save game file formats, not game executables. You think WinEXE tops my pcgames suggestion? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 26), Sheldon Hearn said: On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:30:08 +0200, Mark Murray wrote: You could start with "WinEXE". Save game file formats, not game executables. You think WinEXE tops my pcgames suggestion? What about multi-OS games, like Quake? How about just calling

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-26 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:30:08 +0200, Mark Murray wrote: You could start with "WinEXE". Save game file formats, not game executables. You think WinEXE tops my pcgames suggestion? No. How about "savegames"? The Quake 2 format in there would be

file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, I've had some interesting comments from David Bushong, motivating for inclusion of his Magdir candidate on PR 12554. He makes a strong case for a bloated file(1) Magdir. The only thing we're battling with is a filename for his submission. Just because a bloated file(1) magic database

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-26 Thread Mark Murray
So I propose a new file wintendo, for all gaming file formats used on the MS Windows platform. Wintendo is a bad name for anything official. Try to find MS's official name for the format(s). M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:17:20 +0200, Mark Murray wrote: Wintendo is a bad name for anything official. Try to find MS's official name for the format(s). You're hoping for a standard name for file formats of games used on Microsoft platformat? There are two words in that question that one

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:46:31 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: You're hoping for a standard name for file formats of games used on Microsoft platformat? Duh, I'm being obtuse. Your question indicates that I've phrased my proposal in such a way as to suggest that this is for formats of Microsoft

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-26 Thread Mark Murray
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:17:20 +0200, Mark Murray wrote: Wintendo is a bad name for anything official. Try to find MS's official name for the format(s). You're hoping for a standard name for file formats of games used on Microsoft platformat? There are two words in that question that one

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:30:08 +0200, Mark Murray wrote: You could start with WinEXE. Save game file formats, not game executables. You think WinEXE tops my pcgames suggestion? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 26), Sheldon Hearn said: On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:30:08 +0200, Mark Murray wrote: You could start with WinEXE. Save game file formats, not game executables. You think WinEXE tops my pcgames suggestion? What about multi-OS games, like Quake? How about just calling it

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-26 Thread lomion
At 05:02 PM 7/26/99 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 26), Sheldon Hearn said: On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:30:08 +0200, Mark Murray wrote: You could start with WinEXE. Save game file formats, not game executables. You think WinEXE tops my pcgames suggestion? What about multi-OS

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-26 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:30:08 +0200, Mark Murray wrote: You could start with WinEXE. Save game file formats, not game executables. You think WinEXE tops my pcgames suggestion? No. How about savegames? The Quake 2 format in there would be