Subject: Re: magic
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@deshaw.com>
From: J.T. Conklin <jconklin@netcom.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/26/1995 15:51:11
> In article <199506261850.LAA12445@cygnus.com> jtc@cygnus.com writes:
> >Any objections to moving /etc/magic to /usr/share/misc and replacing
> >it with a symlink?
>
> Why not fix the program to look in /usr/share/misc?
That was the idea. I proposed the symlink for third-party programs that
might try to read the magic databse. The same reason we provide a
/etc/termcap symlink.
--jtc