strange behaviour from "file -z"

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, HoytDuff wrote:

> On Tuesday 07 October 2003 09:20 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > then running "file -z lsz" just sits there.  can anyone explain
> > this?  is anyone else even seeing this?
> 
> Doesn't file use magic numbers? How do the two files compare in that regard?
> 
> Also, try running the command with strace to see where it chokes.

i'll give that a shot, but it is definitely strange that the file
"lsz" appears to be a perfectly respectable compressed file.
it's just the "file" command that appears to have trouble with it.

rday