The author of file has sent this reply.  Right now
ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file
is not available,  so I can't tell you what the latest version is.

Patrick

> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jul 16 19:29:42 2000
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christos Zoulas)
> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:29:28 -0400
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: file-3.30 reports text files incorrectly
>
> On Jul 16,  6:38pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> -- Subject: file-3.30 reports text files incorrectly
>
> I really apologize about that. It has been fixed in the latest version
> of file.
>
> Sticky fingers,
>
> christos
>
> | h2.private: {92} % file - </etc/motd
> | standard input:              ASCII test
> | 
> | There is a typeo in the code.
> | 
> | You would not believe how long this took me to find...
> | 
> | *** file-3.30/ascmagic.c    Sun Jul 16 18:36:45 2000
> | --- file-3.30/ascmagic.c.orig       Sun Jul 16 18:36:43 2000
> | ***************
> | *** 118,124 ****
> |     }
> |   
> |     /* all else fails, but it is ASCII... */
> | !   ckfputs(iflag ? "text/plain, ASCII" : "ASCII text", stdout);
> |     if (has_escapes) {
> |             ckfputs(" (with escape sequences)", stdout);
> |     }
> | --- 118,124 ----
> |     }
> |   
> |     /* all else fails, but it is ASCII... */
> | !   ckfputs(iflag ? "text/plain, ASCII" : "ASCII test", stdout);
> |     if (has_escapes) {
> |             ckfputs(" (with escape sequences)", stdout);
> |     }
> -- End of excerpt from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>

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