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@ 2009-03-17 13:49           ` Dave Korn
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From: Dave Korn @ 2009-03-17 13:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Vulgar and Backwardly-Incompatible Cygwin-Talk Maiming List

Charles Wilson wrote:

> It depends on which version of 'file' you are using. On cygwin-1.7, the
> current version of file:
> 
> $ file -version
> file-5.00
> 
> reports ASCII text.
> 
> On cygwin-1.5, the current version of file
> 
> $ file -version
> file-4.21
> 
> reports ASCII troff.

  Is it just me, or does anyone else think that upstream has a slightly odd
attitude towards backward compatibility?

  *executable*) # but shell scripts are "executable" too...
    case $win32_fileres in
    *MS\ Windows\ PE\ Intel*)
      win32_libid_type="x86 DLL"
      ;;
    esac

$ file /bin/cyggcc_s-1.dll
/bin/cyggcc_s-1.dll: PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (console) Intel
80386 32-bit

~ $ file /bin/cyggcc_s-1.dll
/bin/cyggcc_s-1.dll: MS-DOS executable PE  for MS Windows (DLL) (console)
Intel 80386 32-bit
@_______. .
(       /"\
 ||--||(___)
 '"  '"'---'
~ $

    cheers,
      DaveK

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