Ryan, Using file version 3.37 on Debian Linux and file version 3.39 on Solaris 9, I get the same output.
Job927-df-data.prn: data Job927-df-PCL.prn: HP Printer Job Language data --- Keith Rinaldo Systems Administrator College of Engineering University of Nevada, Las Vegas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Novosielski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 7:23 AM Subject: Re: LPRng: Problem with 'file' > Treating it as data is fine with me -- however, when file can't figure out > what it is, there is a problem, as I do check for file type with ifhp and > it will refuse unrecognized file types. > > As you can see from the files below, vi appears to have halved the > contents of the file -- I'm assuming that the file after vi is done is no > longer usable. Perhaps this question is now becoming one that is more for > the "file" mailing list, but I had said that I would post the files in > question regardless. The curious thing is that file, AFAIK, looks at the > beginning of a file. vi would not likely be changing the beginning of the > first line of the file that signals PCL data, so it doesn't make sense > that it would have an effect on that (not to me, anyway). Also interesting > is that this printer doesn't seem to use PJL prior to its PCL stream, > which is odd from my experience. Here is the URL: > > http://www.umdnj.edu/~novosirj/PCL-data-problem > > ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ > |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin > |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) > \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 > > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Villy Kruse wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > > > > > Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:09:24 -0400 (EDT) > > > From: Ryan Novosielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: LPRng: Problem with 'file' > > > > > > There is a LOT different. The most noticeable seems to be the outputs of > > > cmp -l in the first column are about 2-3 times larger than the second one. > > > I'm guessing maybe vi chopped some long lines, if that's what those > > > numbers are? Why would ifhp care? > > > > > > In any case, I'm going to produce a set of small df's to post and see what > > > the consensus is... this is driving me /nuts/. > > > > > > > Standard unix vi chops all binary zeroes, and yes, you do get > > problems with long lines as well. In my experience print data from > > MS-Windows should be treated as binary data, and any modifications > > inclusing stripping or inserting CR characters tend to produce garbage. > > Postscript data, however, can normaly be treated as text files without > > too much problems. > > > > > > Villy > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST > > The address you post from MUST be your subscription address > > > > If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests > > or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. 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