Re: Executable programs

From: Jon Gomez (jon.gomez.04_at_cnu.edu)
Date: 12/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:40:49 -0500

Dave Uhring wrote:

> On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:59:33 -0500, Jon Gomez wrote:
>
>> Dave Uhring wrote:
>>> $ file name_of_your_software
>>
>> Oooh.. Nice, I had forgotten about that command!
>
> A friend sent me an email attachment a couple of days ago and kmail did
> not have a file name for it. I saved it and then used file to discover
> that it was a PDF.

I recently tried 'file' on a raw dump of an windows boot disk, and it not
only identified it, but gave general information about the image. The zip
archive containing the image had been slightly unorthodox; thus, this
helped me to confirm that the extraction had worked properly.

Thanks yet again,

Jon. 

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