From: Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 file
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 17:48:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAO41-mNompzw1KnxpDx95_u=w-Ch6x1F3yeaSJx-1FLm2ZbnWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-f178e538-028c-42a3-8c98-f31fb58b856d-1426710969133@3capp-gmx-bs36>
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The file command just makes guesses based on the file's content. I've had
it tell me build scripts were C source files and that various other files
(most particularly Makefiles) are ASCII text.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Adrian Regenfuss <a.regenfuss@gmx.de>
wrote:
> Hey, just found something interesting:
> When you run file on /rc/lib/rcmain, it tells me that it is «English
> text». I didn't look at the source of file yet,
> but if you cat rcmain it really doesn't look like «English text».
> Have there been similar mistakes or has it been working fine most of the
> time?
> Adrian
>
> P.S: Sorry for my bad english…
> P.P.S: By the way: I know how to do a screenshot in Plan 9, but how do I
> make a screen recording? Does plan 9
> deal with video files in any way?
>
--
Ryan
[ERROR]: Your autotools build scripts are 200 lines longer than your
program. Something’s wrong.
http://kirbyfan64.github.io/
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2015-03-18 20:36 Adrian Regenfuss
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2015-03-19 9:00 ` Adrian Regenfuss
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