File is a utility that classifies arbitrary files of any type mainly by their contents. It is considered standard on most Unix distributions. It can output either human-readable concise descriptions or MIME types for machine handling.
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This release fixes a few minor memory leaks, tries to support ucs16 strings, and adds FreeBSD version parsing code. There were also modifications to the file magic, most notably for MPEG animations. Furthermore, the copyright clauses were slightly changed.
This release contains a lot of MIME fixes, gettext
message catalogue support, and FreeBSD ELF version
handling. It also provides better printout for
unreadable files, fixes a possible memory leak,
correctly cleans up after itself, and fixes some
further bugs.
