file for Windows (original) (raw)
File: determine file type
Version
5.03
Description
File tests each argument in an attempt to classify it. There are three sets of tests, performed in this order: filesystem tests, magic number tests, and language tests. The first test that succeeds causes the file type to be printed. The type printed will usually contain one of the words text (the file contains only printing characters and a few common control characters and is probably safe to read on an ASCII terminal), executable (the file contains the result of compiling a program in a form understandable to some UNIX kernel or another), or data meaning anything else (data is usually `binary' or non-printable). Exceptions are well-known file formats (core files, tar archives) that are known to contain binary data.
Starting with version 4, the file command is not much more than a wrapper around the "magic" library.
Homepage
Sources: ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file
Download
If you download the Setup program of the package, any requirements for running applications, such as dynamic link libraries (DLL's) from the dependencies as listed below under Requirements, are already included. If you download the package as Zip files, then you must download and install the dependencies zip file yourself. Developer files (header files and libraries) from other packages are however not included; so if you wish to develop your own applications, you must separately install the required packages.
| Description | Download | Size | Last change | Md5sum | | | | | | ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ------- | | --------------- | | -------------------------------- | | • Complete package, except sources | | Setup | | 835321 | | 7 May 2009 | | 88b83fc42f2d393b9f86fe4c05be4b16 | | • Sources | | Setup | | 764039 | | 7 May 2009 | | 75ae9df7d6c2220a983ab592e798d360 | | | | | | | | | | | | • Binaries | | Zip | | 442585 | | 7 May 2009 | | 1c003c59ee9fb04ca84a5488543a69e0 | | • Developer files | | Zip | | 7142 | | 7 May 2009 | | 35087df71ce92dc8ca00789538f063f0 | | • Documentation | | Zip | | 191162 | | 7 May 2009 | | 7a6e366ad76df2b69492296054b7d5ae | | • Sources | | Zip | | 1189051 | | 7 May 2009 | | dbbf8544f74530b6bb31cf8da3cd5b6c | | • Dependencies | | Zip | | 84675 | | 24 October 2007 | | ef386032df0e68c8a44048a184695fd7 | | • Original source | ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-5.03.tar.gz | | | | | | | |
You can also download the files from the GnuWin32files page. New releases of the port of this package can bemonitored.
Installation, Usage and Help
General Installation Instructions
GnuWin32 Help (feature requests, bugs, etc)
Requirements
Requirements for running applications, excluding external ones such as msvcrt.dll, perl, etc, are included in theSetup program and the dependencies zip file.
- Win32, i.e. MS-Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 with msvcrt.dll and msvcp60.dll. If msvcrt.dll or msvcp60.dll is not in your Windows/System folder, get them from Microsoft, or (msvcrt.dll only) by installing Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher.
- regex
- zlib
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