Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 05:08:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Klaus-Juergen Wolf <kjwolf@online.de> To: jon@caamora.com.au (jonathan michaels) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with /usr/share/misc/magic Message-ID: <199905100308.FAA05752@solling.seismic.de> In-Reply-To: <19990510120010.C12959@caamora.com.au> from jonathan michaels at "May 10, 1999 12: 0:10 pm"
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> On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 02:36:09AM +0200, Klaus-Juergen Wolf wrote: > > Hi! > > > > As I've seen, an entry in /usr/src/usr.bin/file/Magdir/ms-dos overrides > > the entries /usr/src/usr.bin/file/Magdir/wordperfect. (FreeBSD-STABLE) > > > > I think, the WordPerfect entry in ms-dos should be removed. > > why ? > > more importantly, what or how, those of us who use the msdos > version of wordperfect are going to be effected by this > proposed change. The first line of the definitions (and the only line for the definition in the file ms-dos) is exactly the same, it won't influence any detection of "MS-DOS specific" WordPerfect documents if you remove that line from ms-dos. But it will allow the more detailed detection rules in the file wordperfect to work. > if you can explain to me why you think this is important and > that it won't effect my usage of wordperfect msdos v5.0 then id > say ok .. but remember, please, that not every body is fawning > over those (in my opinion dangeriously useless) graphical user > interfaces. I do think any change that makes a thing work is better than doing nothing and leaving the whole thing in a non-sensual state. cu k.j. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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