Re: What are all the Usenet News Messages doing in my sysconfig directory?

Gunnar Grim wrote:

> Could someone please tell a curious newbie what makes Knonqueror
think
> that e g the file cron is a Usenet News Message while e g cups is a> Plain Text Document!

Does "cron" have the string "Path:" in it, but "cups" not? It may besomething else, but that would be my first guess.

Have a look at the man pages for file(1) and magic(5) (that's "man 5
magic"
from the command line if you've never looked up different manual
sections
before), and have a read of your /etc/magic file. Basically,
something's
taking a guess, by having a look at the contents of a file, and an
ASCII file
which contains the string "Path:" is often a news message. In this
case it's
getting it wrong, but you can't get it right 100% of the time!

M

--
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and learning how to live amongst them."
-- Jeff Noon

Matt Gibson wrote:
> Gunnar Grim wrote:
>
>>Could someone please tell a curious newbie what makes Knonqueror
think
>>that e g the file cron is a Usenet News Message while e g cups is a>>Plain Text Document!
>
> Does "cron" have the string "Path:" in it, but "cups" not? It may
be
> something else, but that would be my first guess.
>
> Have a look at the man pages for file(1) and magic(5) (that's "man 5
magic"
> from the command line if you've never looked up different manual
sections
> before), and have a read of your /etc/magic file. Basically,
something's
> taking a guess, by having a look at the contents of a file, and an
ASCII file
> which contains the string "Path:" is often a news message. In this
case it's
> getting it wrong, but you can't get it right 100% of the time!
>
> M
>

Thanks, Matt!
Yepp, it has "Path:" in it at the very first line!