file-4.22 is now available

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Thu Dec 27 18:45:44 EET 2007


Hello,

... and happy holidays. You can ftp it from:

	ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-4.22.tar.gz

Here are the ChangeLog entries:

Enjoy,

christos


2007-12-27 11:35 Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

	* bring back some fixes from OpenBSD

	* treat ELF dynamic objects as executables

	* fix gcc warnings

2007-12-01 19:55 Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

	* make sure we have zlib.h and libz to compile the builtin
	  decompress code

2007-10-28 20:48 Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

 	* float and double magic support (Behan Webster) 

2007-10-28 20:48 Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

	* Convert fortran to a soft test (Reuben Thomas)

2007-10-23  5:25 Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

	* Add --with-filename, and --no-filename (Reuben Thomas)

2007-10-23  3:59 Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

	* Rest of the mime split (Reuben Thomas)

	* Make usage message generated from the flags so that
	  they stay consistent (Reuben Thomas)

2007-10-20  3:06 Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

	* typo in comment, missing ifdef QUICK, remove unneeded code
		(Charles Longeau)

2007-10-17  3:33 Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

	* Fix problem printing -\012 in some entries

	* Separate magic type and encoding flags (Reuben Thomas)

2007-10-09  3:55 Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

	* configure fix for int64 and strndup (Reuben Thomas)

2007-09-26  4:45 Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

	* Add magic_descriptor() function.

	* Fix regression in elf reading code where the core name was
	  not being printed.

	* Don't convert NUL's to spaces in {l,b}estring16 (Daniel Dawson)

2007-08-19  6:30 Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

	* Make mime format consistent so that it can
	  be easily parsed:
	      mimetype [charset=character-set] [encoding=encoding-mime-type]

	  Remove spurious extra text from some MIME type printouts 
	  (mostly in is_tar).

	  Fix one case where -i produced nothing at all (for a 1-byte file,
	  which is now classed as application/octet-stream).

	  Remove 7/8bit classifications, since they were arbitrary
	  and not based on the file data.

	  This work was done by Reuben Thomas



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