From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT father DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: file(1)
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 11:24:12 +0000 (UTC)
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

: On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Martin Str|mberg wrote:

:> 1. Try specify an alternative magic file with -m:
:> file -m t:/magic /djgpp/bin/ranlib.exe
:> file.exe: couldn't find any magic files!
:> 
:> I worked around this by using "/dev/t/" instead of "t:/".

: It's indeed not nice for a DJGPP port not to support native DOS/Windows 
: file names.

: What happens if you use backslashes?  Does it support something like 
: \foo\bar\baz?  It should, IMHO.

Not for the "-m" option. But for the file we are exmining, it does.


Right,

						MartinS