[File] Update magic entries

Vadim vad.mailingfile at vad.cx
Fri May 2 11:48:17 UTC 2025


I'm not the maintainer, but you should make sure the licensing situation 
is compatible. Oh I should've asked this earlier, but hopefully 
everything is compatible... yeah considering file has an ancient "leave 
me alone" license no one seemed to care about, it's problably fine(tm).

Thank you two for the work!

On 5/2/25 13:41, Gregory Lepore wrote:
> With a ton of help from Jason Summers I have updated my collection of 
> 1,200 new magic entries for file. I have updated each entry to include 
> links to the supporting documentation I used to create the signatures. 
> The file now passes Jason's mgcchk script and all entries have been 
> tested.
>
> I would like to find out the best way to get these signatures verified 
> and into 'file'. I don't think anybody wants 1,200 separate emails/bug 
> reports for each of the entries (but I will do it if needed.)
>
> The magic file (lepore_magic) is at:
>
> https://github.com/glepore70/pronom-research/tree/master
>
> along with sample files and supporting documentation for every new 
> entry in the sample_files directory. Also included are the signatures 
> in PRONOM format.
>
> I've also uploaded a helper script, combomask.py which generates a 
> basic file or PRONOM formatted entry based on an analysis of files in ./.
>
> Thanks.


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