dupuy@amsterdam.UUCP (04/24/87)
Here are a few lines you can add to /etc/magic on your sun workstations in order to recognize VAX executables and objects. I guess you could do something similar (in reverse) for your vaxen, but since 4.3+NFS' file(1) doesn't look for /etc/magic, I've never bothered. It really should be built in to file(1) so you would see the state of setuid/setgid/sticky bits. Or actually, there should be support for checking that sort of thing in /etc/magic. I've also thrown in an entry for the new P1003 tar format, based on John Gilmore's implementation (haven't tested it). Sadly, the ``standard'' Unix tar doesn't have any magic bits... 0 long 00700200000 VAX executable >16 long&0x7fffffff >0 not stripped 0 long 01000200000 VAX pure executable >16 long&0x7fffffff >0 not stripped 0 long 01300200000 VAX demand-paged pure executable >16 long&0x7fffffff >0 not stripped 0 long 01100200000 PDP-11 executable 257 string ustar new standard tar archive @alex --- arpanet: dupuy@columbia.edu uucp: ...!seismo!columbia!dupuy