Well, I got 3.31 at the end of last month (June 29, to be exact), so
that is likely the one. It does not require this patch, as it reports
files as "ASCII text" correctly.
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>
> 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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