Russian Text = Executable?

[Glenn Steen]

2009/8/3 Remco Barendse <mailscanner at barendse.to>:
> On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Richard Bollinger wrote:
>
>> Here's the patch I applied:
>> --- ../msdos.FCS        2009-07-03 13:55:06.000000000 -0400
>> +++ file-5.03/magic/Magdir/msdos        2009-07-03 14:05:25.000000000
>> -0400
>> @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@
>> # but it isn't feasible to match all COM files since there must be at
>> least
>> # two dozen different one-byte "magics".
>> # test too generic ?
>> -0      byte            0xe9            DOS executable (COM)
>> +##0    byte            0xe9            DOS executable (COM)
>> >0x1FE leshort         0xAA55          \b, boot code
>> >6     string          SFX\ of\ LHarc  (%s)
>> 0      belong  0xffffffff              DOS executable (device driver)
>> @@ -311,13 +311,13 @@
>> >>>77  string  <\x5B
>> >>>>77 string  x                       \b, name: %.8s
>> # test too generic ?
>> -0      byte            0x8c            DOS executable (COM)
>> +##0    byte            0x8c            DOS executable (COM)
>> # updated by Joerg Jenderek at Oct 2008
>> 0      ulelong         0xffff10eb      DR-DOS executable (COM)
>> # byte 0xeb conflicts with "sequent" magic leshort 0xn2eb
>> 0      ubeshort&0xeb8d >0xeb00
>> # DR-DOS STACKER.COM SCREATE.SYS missed
>> ->0     byte            0xeb            DOS executable (COM)
>> +##>0   byte            0xeb            DOS executable (COM)
>> >>0x1FE leshort                0xAA55          \b, boot code
>> >>85   string          UPX             \b, UPX compressed
>> >>4    string          \ $ARX          \b, ARX self-extracting archive
>>
>
>
> Suffering from the same problem. How and where should this patch be applied?
>  Any chance of the patch making it into MailScanner?
Seems to be against the resulting magic file, or possibly from an
unpacked source tarball. You can just as easily do the edits manually
on your magic file (likely in /usr/share/misc/file ... it is the file
called "magic". When you're done, just run "file -C" to "compile" the
magic.mgc file.
Only bother, and the reason it is a good idea to use a patch file like
this, is that updates to the file package risk reverting your work.

> Thanks!

Cheers
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