[File] [PATCH] Magdir/pascal unrecognised Turbo Pascal Tour data *.CBT+ Dan Bricklin's Demo *.DBD

[Jörg Jenderek]

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Hello,

some days ago i send patches for DOS COM executables. One Syslinux
COMboot variant use file name extension CBT instead of COM.

For control reason i look for other files with CBT extension on my
systems. There are 2 files TPTOUR1.CBT and TPTOUR2.CBT. These are
part of Borland Turbo Pascal 5.5 compiler suite and are used by
TOUR.EXE program for a guided introduction tour to compiler suite.

When running file command (version 5.42) on such examples and
related files i get an output like:

MOUSE.DBD:   data
RUNME.DBD:   data
TPTOUR1.CBT: data
TPTOUR2.CBT: data
_PPRINT.SG2: data

For comparison reason i also run the file format identification
utility DROID ( See https://sourceforge.net/projects/droid/). This
identifies all CBT examples wrong as "Comic Book Archive" by PUID
fmt/1462 based on file name extension (See appended
droid-bricklin.csv.gz)

For comparison reason i run the file format identification utility
TrID ( See https://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html). At least all
examples are described as "Dan Bricklin's Demo demo (generic)" by
TrID definition dbd-gen.trid.xml via 4 byte starting pattern Type.
The DBD examples are also described with higher rate as "Dan
Bricklin's Demo 2 demo" by TrID definition dbd-v2.trid.xml via
following 2 byte phrase D2 (See appended trid-v-bricklin.txt.gz).

Unfortunately i found no file format specification. There exist a
page on Wikipedia about the software author Dan Bricklin and you
find the Demo II Program User Manual. That is now expressed by
comment lines like:
# URL:		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Bricklin
# URL:		https://dl.winworldpc.com/
#		Dan%20Bricklins%20Demo%20II%20Version%202%20Manual.7z
# Reference:	http://mark0.net/download/triddefs_xml.7z
#		defs/d/dbd-gen.trid.xml
#		defs/d/dbd-v2.trid.xml

According to TrID definition i create inside Magdir/pascal lines like
:
0	string/b	Type
> 4	string		D2	Dan Bricklin's Demo 2 demo
!:ext	dbd
> 4	string		T2	Turbo Pascal TOUR data
!:mime	application/x-borland-cbt
!:ext	cbt
> 4	default		x	Dan Bricklin's Demo demo (generic)
!:ext	dbd

Instead of generic mime type application/octet-stream i display an
user defined type.

After applying the above mentioned modifications by patch
file-5.42-pascal.bricklin.diff then all my Borland Turbo Pascal CBT
samples and related files are now identified. This now looks like:
MOUSE.DBD:   Dan Bricklin's Demo 2 demo
RUNME.DBD:   Dan Bricklin's Demo 2 demo
TPTOUR1.CBT: Turbo Pascal TOUR data
TPTOUR2.CBT: Turbo Pascal TOUR data
_PPRINT.SG2: Dan Bricklin's Demo demo (generic)

I hope my diff file can be applied in future version of file
utility.

There exist still some other file formats with CBT suffix. I will
try to handle this in a future session.

With best wishes,
Jörg Jenderek
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Jörg Jenderek

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+++ file-5.42/magic/Magdir/pascal	2022-07-26 03:01:37.059657300 +0200
@@ -13,2 +13,27 @@
 0	string	PPU	Pascal unit
 >3	string	x	\b, version %s
+
+# From:		Joerg Jenderek
+# URL:		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Bricklin
+0	string/b	Type
+# URL:		https://dl.winworldpc.com/Dan%20Bricklins%20Demo%20II%20Version%202%20Manual.7z
+# Reference:	http://mark0.net/download/triddefs_xml.7z/defs/d/dbd-v2.trid.xml
+>4	string		D2		Dan Bricklin's Demo 2 demo
+#!:mime	application/octet-stream
+!:ext	dbd
+# URL:		https://muhaz.org/turbo-pascal-download-details.html
+# From:		Joerg Jenderek
+# Note:		used by Turbo Pascal 5.5 TOUR.EXE
+>4	string		T2		Turbo Pascal TOUR data
+#!:mime	application/octet-stream
+!:mime	application/x-borland-cbt
+!:ext	cbt
+# WHAT iS THAT?
+#>4	string		\040P		Dan Bricklin's Demo 2 foo
+#!:mime	application/octet-stream
+# _PPRINT.SG2 _PASCII.SG2
+#!:ext	sg2
+# Reference:	http://mark0.net/download/triddefs_xml.7z/defs/d/dbd-gen.trid.xml
+>4	default		x		Dan Bricklin's Demo demo (generic)
+#!:mime	application/octet-stream
+!:ext	dbd
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