On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 00:08:54 -0800
Brent Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 05 December 2002 02:02 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 01:10, Richard Urwin wrote:
> > > On 04 December 2002 22:21, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> > > > Try using an editor to look through the headers on the
> > > > coredump files -
> > > > or use a hexeditor if you have to - THEN you'll be able to locate the
> > > > criminal application...
> > >
> > > On SunOS4 there was a cute command line app called (I think) "file". It
> > > had a table of magic numbers and a small amount of parsing ability, so
> > > that it could identify the type of 'any' file. For a core file it
> > > indicated the application that it related to.
> > >
> > >
> > > Does such exist on Linux?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Richard Urwin, Software Design Engineer
> > > Schenck Test Automation
> > > Braemar Court, 1311b Melton Road, Syston, UK.
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Yeah, but it ain't quite as powerful or "friendly" - or, better yet,
> > informational...
> K, so what is it?
> the name of the not quite as good but similar program?
>From 'man file' :
SunOS releases 3.2 and later from Sun Microsystems include a file(1)
command derived from the System V one, but with some extensions. My
version differs from Sun's only in minor ways.
HTH,
-Frans
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