Re: a.out.h in text-utils/more.c

[Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 07:17:45PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:20:47PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > we could use libmagic from the file package, but how terribly useful is
> > > that even ?
> >
> >  Overkill.
> >
> >  I see libmagic in /usr/lib and it also depends on /usr/share/file/magic*.
> >  The more(1) should be useful with minimal dependences.
> 
> then the question is, is the magic() function useful.  i dont think it is.

 I agree with you. BTW, less(1):

    /*
	 * Call it a binary file if there are more than 5 binary characters
	 * in the first 256 bytes of the file.
	 */

 ... it uses isprint()

    Karel


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