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On Mar 17 08:53, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > > It depends on which version of 'file' you are using. On cygwin-1.7, the > > current version of file: > > > > $ file -version > > file-5.00 > > > > reports ASCII text. > > > > On cygwin-1.5, the current version of file > > > > $ file -version > > file-4.21 > > > > reports ASCII troff. > > Ahh... my bad, I tested on Cygwin 1.7 with file-5.00 only. I just got a reply from the file(1) upstream maintainer that the word "ASCII" in front of the troff text is just an artifact from the older builtin test. The next file release will only print "troff or preprocessor input text" without the leading ASCII. The fact that troff pages are often recognized as "ASCII text", "ASCII English text" or even "ASCII Pascal program text" in file-5.00 is a bug in the magic file which will be fixed in the next file release. But, as aforementioned, then with just "troff or preprocessor input text" instead of "ASCII troff or preprocessor input text". Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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