On 7/2/2010 10:35 AM, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:25:20 -0400, Lowell
Gilbert<[email protected]> wrote:
Why is it incorrect? "LZ" as the first two bytes in a file is (unless
my memory is badly mistaken) exactly what the old command.com looked for
as the flag of an executable.
If I ask *my* memory, it tells me that what you mean is "MZ". As
far as I remember, those are the initials of a programmer involved
with the creation of the DOS binary executable format. :-)
Some OSs report both LZ and MZ as being DOS .exe, some only
report LZ. Either way, when processing data files, there
needs to be a deeper check to avoid the false positive.
It may be that 'file' just isn't powerful enough to do this.
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