On Monday 07 February 2011 19:10:25 Camaleón wrote: > > and b)Whether a specific file of that type has the correct magic number. > > "file" command, as already pointed out, can help.
That was a great tip the two of you gave me, and did indeed tell me exactly what I wanted to know. Unfortunately, this wasn't a real life setup and the task specifies that we must use hexdump. As I said earlier, I was very confused myself. I'm now a lot clearer, and, as I said, could do it in real life. I failed to take account of the fact that in Linux there are always at least two ways to skin a cat. :-( Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201102101633.07172.lisi.re...@gmail.com
