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Date:      Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:32:45 PDT
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        "House of Debuggin'" <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSDi 2.0 binary compatibility question 
Message-ID:  <95Jun8.163254pdt.49859@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 95 15:28:20 PDT." <199506072228.SAA00374@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> 

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In message <199506072228.SAA00374@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> you write:
>  (I'd like to know why file(1) only prints 'ex' instead of 'executable.')

because the phrase "BSD/386 demand paged (first page unmapped) pure ex\0" is 
50 bytes long, and /usr/src/usr.bin/file/file.h says

#define MAXDESC 50              /* max leng of text description */

  Bill




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