clisp fasl magic entry

[Christos Zoulas]

On Jun 27, 10:31am, sds at podval.org (Sam Steingold) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: clisp fasl magic entry

| Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > On Jun 23, 10:32pm, sds at gnu.org (Sam Steingold) wrote:
| > -- Subject: clisp fasl magic entry
| > 
| > | 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, I kept both.
| 
| Thanks.
| I hope you mark the old version with a message
| "CLISP byte-compiled Lisp program text (pre 2004-03-27)"
| or something like that

Will do.
christos