hpux man page for magic

magic(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							  magic(4)

NAME
       magic - magic numbers for HP-UX implementations

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
       The  file  localizes all information about HP-UX ``magic numbers'' in one file, thus facilitating uniform treatment of magic numbers.  This
       file specifies the location of the magic number in a file (always the start of the file) and the structure of the magic number:

       includes definitions for the system IDs of all HP machines running HP-UX, and file types that are common to all implementations.  There may
       be additional implementation-dependent file types.  The predefined file types are:

       The values for are defined in model(4).

WARNINGS
       Files managed by use a different form of magic number that is incompatible with

SEE ALSO
       ar(1), ld(1), a.out(4), ar(4), model(4).

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