From: leif AT islenet DOT org (Leif Jackson)
Subject: Re: file
1 Nov 1998 23:33:13 -0800
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To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>
Cc: Todd Goodman <tsg1 AT earthlink DOT net>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Accualy the command file doesn't seem to be a gnu product.

I found the lastest version for the orginal site found on sunsite's lsm
file.

ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-3.26.tar.gz

Laters,
Leif

p.s. Rember that B20 doesn't use __CYGWIN32__ anymore it has __CYGWIN__
for your patch below :)


On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 02:02:39 +0100
>From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>
>To: Todd Goodman <tsg1 AT earthlink DOT net>,
    gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>Subject: Re: file
>
>Hi Todd,
>
>> I'm sure I'm overlooking something obvious, but is the 'file' command
>> or equivalent available anywhere?
>
>Look at the GNU Homepage. There you will find the original
>sources. Only one patch is needed, because
>#include <sys/sysmacros.h> isn't available in cygwin.
>
>Regards,
>Corinna
>
>------- snip -------
>--- fsmagic.c.orig      Sun Nov 01 00:50:08 1998
>+++ fsmagic.c   Sun Nov 01 00:53:20 1998
>@@ -38,7 +38,13 @@
> # endif
> #endif
> #ifndef        major         /* if `major' not defined in types.h, */
>+#ifdef __CYGWIN32__
>+#define major(dev) (((unsigned) (dev))>>8)
>+#define minor(dev) ((dev)&0xff)
>+#define makedev(major,minor) (((major)<<8)|(minor))
>+#else
> #include <sys/sysmacros.h>     /* try this one. */
>+#endif
> #endif
> #ifndef        major   /* still not defined? give up, manual
>intervention needed */
>                /* If cc tries to compile this, read and act on it. */
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