From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Message-id: From: Pietro Gagliardi To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:30:57 -0400 References: <6D8E96FF-B605-446F-A022-0B41A2B1B28A@mac.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] file heuristics on troff input Topicbox-Message-UUID: e3c9ade6-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 What I'm pointing out is that file doesn't look hard enough to guess accurately. Something like .ds da December 4, 3210 .DA \*(da .TL would not be detected. On Jul 11, 2008, at 12:11 PM, hiro wrote: >> So that's only one file that is absolutely correct. It turns out >> that the >> problem is file isn't reading the >> >> .FP font >> >> as a troff -ms macro line. In the books, they don't read enough >> lines to >> see that there are more .PPs than there are #includes. Ah well. >> >> And if you thought that was funny, look at the example of a file that >> actually seeks to more than one line from UNIX in "The UNIX-HATERS >> Handbook" >> (now a free PDF from its authors). > > So you have shown that you are more intelligent than a computer. > Or are you just bored and trolling? > To be honest, I don't find this very funny at all. Even though I > wished I could. >