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Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue

Date 2013-09-05 14:42 +1000
From Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
Subject Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue
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On 04Sep2013 12:38, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
| 'file' isn't magic.

Chuckle...

| What heuristics it uses, I don't know, but it has
| hundreds of them.

... because the file of heuristics is /usr/share/file/magic :-)
See "man 5 magic".

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature
replaces it with.       - Tenessee Williams

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