Hi Pete,
thanks. I'll contact Christos Zoulas.
Cheers, Fons.
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 14:52, Peter Elmer wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 01:17:11PM +0200, Christian Holm Christensen wrote:
> > For Debian GNU/{Linux,Hurd,BSD?} I need to write a mail to
> > <submit@bugs.debian.org> asking for that fix in the package `file'.
> > For Red Hat I have absolutely no idea :-( Someone out there might
> > though (anyone?).
>
> /usr/share/magic on RH appears to come from the "file" package, which
> from the 'file' man page is maintained by:
>
> Primary development and maintenance from 1990 to the pre
> sent by Christos Zoulas (christos@astron.com).
>
> at the site:
>
> ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/
>
> (there was an uploaded version a month ago there). There is a subdirectory
> in the source called "Magdir" which appears to have various applications.
> Presumably you can contact him. Yes, the README says:
>
> In addition, the /etc/magic file is built from a subdirectory
> for easier(?) maintenance. I will act as a clearinghouse for
> magic numbers assigned to all sorts of data files that
> are in reasonable circulation. Send your magic numbers,
> in magic(4) format please, to the maintainer, Christos Zoulas.
>
> Pete
>
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