Should this directed to the "file" package maintainer?: ~ $ 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. -- thanks, Tom -- PS above unicode contains one line with a single "h" char -- 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/
