Re: file magic for SVG

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 10:24:14PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> I'd appreciate help getting this to work properly, not just for my own use
> but so that I can try and get it included in gnu-utils.

are you sure you are using command `file' from GNU?  I, personally, use
the program file maintained by Christos Zoulas.  I send a cc of this mail to
him.

> # Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML based standard for
> # Vector Graphics from the World Wide Web Consortium
> # http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
> 0       string/cB       \<!DOCTYPE\ svg         SVG image data
> 0       string/cb       \<svg                   SVG image data

I cannot understand why should the second line contain the flag "b" when
there is no blank in the string "<svg".

But it might be a bug in my magic(4) manpage.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan Kasal