* [9fans] plan 9 file
@ 2015-03-18 20:36 Adrian Regenfuss
2015-03-18 22:48 ` Ryan Gonzalez
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From: Adrian Regenfuss @ 2015-03-18 20:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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* Re: [9fans] plan 9 file
2015-03-18 20:36 [9fans] plan 9 file Adrian Regenfuss
@ 2015-03-18 22:48 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-03-19 9:00 ` Adrian Regenfuss
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From: Ryan Gonzalez @ 2015-03-18 22:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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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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