[File] [PATCH] OpenFst blobs

[Martin Jansche]

Thanks. The man page I was referring to on macOS 10.14.6 is indeed out of
date (v 1.92). Bug filed with Apple.

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 5:08 PM Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com> wrote:

> On Sep 29,  4:36pm, mjansche at gmail.com (Martin Jansche) wrote:
> -- Subject: [File] [PATCH] OpenFst blobs
>
> | Here (below the line) are magic numbers for OpenFst binary formats. The
> | formatting seems to have been lost when pasting into mail, unfortunately.
> |
> | Empirically pstring/l works with Pascal-style strings that have a 4-byte
> LE
> | length, even though man magic(5) says that /l should indicate 2 bytes;
> | pstring/L does not work. I wonder if something is amiss there. Here's a
> | test case:
>
> Perhaps your man page is our of date?
>
>               pstring     A Pascal-style string where the first
> byte/short/int
>                           is interpreted as the unsigned length.  The
> length
>                           defaults to byte and can be specified as a
> modifier.
>                           The following modifiers are supported:
>                           B  A byte length (default).
>                           H  A 2 byte big endian length.
>                           h  A 2 byte little endian length.
>                           L  A 4 byte big endian length.
>                           l  A 4 byte little endian length.
>                           J  The length includes itself in its count.
>                           The string is not NUL terminated.  ``J'' is used
>                           rather than the more valuable ``I'' because this
>                           type of length is a feature of the JPEG format.
>
> Thanks,
>
> christos
>
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