More "/etc/magic" entries, and a question on them ...

[Michael "Ford" Ditto]

In article <501 at icus.islp.ny.us> lenny at icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>| 0	short		0x1f9d		squeezed data
>| >2	byte		0x90		- 16-bit mode
>| >2	byte		0x8f		- 15-bit mode
>
>Why doesn't this work on a 3B1?

Because the Unix PC's file command sign-extends the numbers for some reason.
I forgot to mention this in my previous posting, but you can see I had to
discover it to do the "Ms.Dos file system" (I put "short 0xffffeb34").

This works fine:

>2	byte		0xffffff90	- 16-bit mode

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