Hi,

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:20:37PM +0100, Sven wrote:

> I have this small magic file (to put in /etc/magic) for file to
> recognize the various .cm* file types.

Under my Linux, it is /usr/share/magic. It works.

> I don't really know what the ast_impl, the ast_intf and the exec
> file type are all about, so these may not be the best strings around.

They are files holding syntax trees generated by camlp4. E.g.:
      camlp4o myfile.ml -o foobar.ml

The file "foobar.ml" is an ast_impl file. It is binary but compilable:
      ocamlc -c foobar.ml

The compiler loads the binary tree, the syntactic analysis is skipped
and the possible error messages show the initial file (myfile.ml).

With your magic file:
      file foobar.ml
      foobar.ml: Objective Caml 'ast_impl' file (Version 008).

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Daniel de RAUGLAUDRE
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