Package: file
Version: 4.17-5
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

The problem I have is that in the below the .br's only cause a line
break (reasonably enough) which makes the text around the examples hard
to read. If you change them to blank lines instead the result is much
more legible.

.PP
The one significant difference 
between this version and System V
is that this version treats any white space
as a delimiter, so that spaces in pattern strings must be escaped.
For example,
.br
>10     string  language impress\       (imPRESS data)
.br
in an existing magic file would have to be changed to
.br
>10     string  language\e impress      (imPRESS data)
.br
In addition, in this version, if a pattern string contains a backslash,
it must be escaped.
For example
.br
0       string          \ebegindata     Andrew Toolkit document
.br
in an existing magic file would have to be changed to
.br
0       string          \e\ebegindata   Andrew Toolkit document
.br

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages file depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libmagic1                    4.17-5      File type determination library us

file recommends no packages.

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