[patch] Two fixes for mc.ext
Pavel Roskin
proski at gnu.org
Sat Jul 14 00:11:34 UTC 2001
Hi, Martin!
Please send patches inline next time, or pine won't quote them if I want
to comment them.
> recently, file(1) chaged the description for .deb packages to "Debian
> binary package (format 2.0), uses gzip compression". The entry for
> gziped files just checks for the regexp "gzip" in the string. As the
> gzip entry is listed prior to the .deb entry, .deb files are
> mistakenly seen as plain gziped files.
>
> The fix is to anchor the regexp (suggested by Oskar Liljeblad)
I'm tired of ad-hoc solutions! I have fixed all "type/" rules to use
anchored regexes, except "executable", which appears after space in the
"file" output.
The rule for info pages didn't work for me at all (RedHat 7.1), so I added
a "shell/" fallback.
All incorrect uses of the alternation operator `|' (i.e. outside
parentheses) have been fixed. Actually, only REXX is affected - two other
rules have no actions, but they showed a bad example.
Thank you for reporting the problem!
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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