The following reply was made to PR bin/35943; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giles Lean <giles.lean@pobox.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org,
	christos@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/35943 (file(1) reports regular binaries as X11/NeWS bitmap fonts) 
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:46:40 +1000

 Hi Christos,
 
 christos@netbsd.org wrote:
 
 > Synopsis: file(1) reports regular binaries as X11/NeWS bitmap fonts
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > State-Changed-By: christos@netbsd.org
 > State-Changed-When: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:17:29 -0400
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > submitter verified that it is fixed
 
 Thanks ... unfortunately, while I *thought* this was fixed, I must have
 botched my testing.  After a new build with ~July 29th sources and
 installation the problem is still present:
 
 Wrong answers:
 
   $ file /usr/bin/file /usr/share/misc/magic /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc
   /usr/bin/file:             Symbian installation file, for NetBSD 4.0,
   dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
   /usr/share/misc/magic:     magic text file for file(1) cmd
   /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc: Infocom game data (Z-machine 241, Release
   1052 /
 
   # mv /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc-bigendian
   # file -C -m /usr/share/misc/magic
 
   $ file /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc*
   /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc:           magic binary file for file(1) cmd
   (version 4) (little endian)
   /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc-bigendian: magic binary file for file(1) cmd
   (version 4) (big endian)
 
 The 'mv' and 'file -C' are an easy workaround, at least.
 
 Host and target platforms the same as when the PR was filed.
 
 Can the PR be placed back in 'open' state, please?
 
 Regards,
 
 Giles