clisp fasl magic entry

Sam Steingold sds at gnu.org
Tue Jun 24 05:32:14 EEST 2008


Hi,

I am writing in my official capacity as one of the CLISP maintainers.
Since 2004-03-27, clisp fasl files start with
(|SYSTEM|::|VERSION|\040'
instead of
(SYSTEM::VERSION\040'
found in the file(1) utility distributed by
<http://www.darwinsys.com/file/>.
this is not good - clisp fasl files are not properly identified.
While it is conceivable that there are 4 year old clisp-compiled fasl
files floating around, I think it is extremely unlikely, therefore I
propose that the file(1) maintainers replace the current line

0	string	(SYSTEM::VERSION\040'	CLISP byte-compiled Lisp program text 
with

0	string	(|SYSTEM|::|VERSION|\040'	CLISP byte-compiled Lisp program text

for your reference:
clisp homepage: http://clisp.cons.org
clisp MAGIC.add file:
http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/unix/MAGIC.add

Thanks!

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