Re: file magic for SVG

[Christos Zoulas]

On Jun 27,  4:35pm, address@hidden (Stepan Kasal) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: file magic for SVG

| 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.

I don't think that the b is needed in the second magic line. It does not
hurt though.

christos