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magic string for Bio-Rad .PIC is too relaxed
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magic string for Bio-Rad .PIC is too relaxed
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Also, era, that was good work figuring out the source of the bug; it
made writing the patch far easier. Thank you. If you're interested in
tricks and methods for writing magic matches, have a look at the
existing magic; it covers a vast variety of file types along with a
corresponding vast variety
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Magic lines which match but don't emit any text can be used to require
multiple matatching patterns before returning a positive hit. I've put
together a patch; it's attached to the upstream Debian bug report.
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #589056
Same problem in Hardy with a simple .txt file...
(see the attached example)
** Attachment added: test.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13290897/test.txt
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magic string for Bio-Rad .PIC is too relaxed
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I tried to come up with a patch for this, but the constraints of the
file format make it a bit challenging. The basic problem is that the
magic number 12345 decimal was a very poor choice, because it
translates to the ASCII sequence 90 (or 09 in big-endian).
Because there is no mechanism for
