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From: cygzx AT trodman DOT com (Tom Rodman)
Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file - #wrong result?
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:08:34 -0600
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On Mon 12/4/06 14:47 CST cygwin AT cygwin DOT com wrote:
--snip
>    ~ $   date;uname -a
>    Mon Dec  4 14:31:38 CST 2006
>    CYGWIN_NT-5.0 OurServer121 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 i686 Cygwin
>    ~ $ printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file -
>    /dev/stdin: MPEG ADTS, layer I, v1, 192 kBits, 32 kHz, Stereo
>    --snip
>    ~ $ date;uname -a
>    Mon Dec  4 14:34:15 CST 2006
>    Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>    ~ $ printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file -
>    standard input:              Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode character data, with CR line terminators
>    ~ $
> 
> From above you can see linux and cygwin "file" output differs.  The printf
> above was inspired recently when "file" mis-identified a unicode file.
> 
> I don't think this is a new problem.

Maybe not a new problem, but this older (flame me) cygwin version works better:

  ~ $   date;uname -a  #box in Bangalore
  Thu Dec  7 00:51:35 IST 2006
  CYGWIN_NT-5.0 XXXblr001 1.3.20(0.73/3/2) 2003-02-08 12:10 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
  ~ $ cygcheck -c file
  Cygwin Package Information
  Package              Version
  file                 3.39-1

  Use -h to see help about each section
  ~ $ printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file -
  standard input:              Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode character data, with CR line terminators
  ~ $

I understand this is low priority.. Thanks as always for cygwin!

--
Tom

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