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/