file-4.02 is now available

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Wed Apr 2 14:19:32 EST 2003


Hi,

This version of file fixes all known problems, and I consider it stable
enough to replace 3.41. In particular, the file compiled format has
been verified to work with both 32 and 64 big and little endian machines.

Thanks to everyone for reporting problems. Here's what 4.02 fixes:

    2003-04-02 13:50  Christos Zoulas  <christos at zoulas.com>

	    * Magic additions (Alex Ott)
	    * Fix bug that broke VPATH compilation (Peter Breitenlohner)

    2003-03-28 16:03  Christos Zoulas  <christos at zoulas.com>

	    * remove packed attribute from magic struct.
	    * make the magic struct properly aligned.
	    * bump version number of compiled files to 2.

    2003-03-27 13:10  Christos Zoulas  <christos at zoulas.com>

	    * separate tar detection and run it before softmagic.
	    * fix reversed symlink test.
	    * fix version printing.
	    * make separator a string instead of a char.
	    * update manual page and sort options.


This is available as always from:

	ftp.astron.com:/pub/file/file-4.02.tar.gz


Enjoy,

christos



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