On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Stephen McKay wrote:

> On Sunday, 11th April 1999, Brian Feldman wrote:
> 
> >This has nothing to do with DOS. In case you didn't get my other hint:
> >{"/home/green"}$ dd if=/dev/zero count=1 2>/dev/null | file -
> >standard input:              MS Windows COFF Unknown CPU
> 
> Don't ya just hate it when your mail is slow!  Sigh...

Yep ;)

You know, I think a much better idea for being in magic(5) would be
a check for lots of NULLs and calling the file "NULL data", rather than
MS Windows COFF Unknown CPU. This identification is a bug in the magic
file, really, since you can't call a short 0x0000 any kind of magic
number!

> 
> Stephen.
> 
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