<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 12, 2025, at 8:55 AM, Jason Summers <jason1@pobox.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><p><defanged_div dir="ltr">I don't speak for the 'file' project maintainers.<br><br>Looks like a lot of good information here. But I feel like I must be missing something. Does the file on GitHub only include the first *line* of each pattern?<br><br>Consider these examples. (Note that these are the complete patterns. There are no ">" lines.)<br><br>0 string \x46\x4f\x52\x4d Amiga Metafile Format<br>0 string \x46\x4f\x52\x4d Extended MIDI Audio File<br>0 string \x46\x4f\x52\x4d FAXX IFF Facsimile Image<br>0 string \x46\x4f\x52\x4d IFF Amiga Contiguous BitMap<br><br>These are obviously not usable as they are.<br><br>Are your PRONOM patterns more strict than this? I know that not every PRONOM pattern can easily be converted to file's format. But if a pattern can't be converted properly, I'd think it should be rejected, not converted badly.</defanged_div></p></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Plus </div><div><blockquote type="cite"><p><defanged_div dir="ltr">0 string \x46\x4f\x52\x4d Amiga Metafile Format</defanged_div></p></blockquote>is just:</div><div>0<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>string FORM<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Amiga Metafile format</div><div><br></div><div>which is already there:</div><div><br></div><div>$ grep FORM iff</div><div><div>iff:0 string FORM IFF data</div></div><div><br></div><div>christos</div></body></html>