In reply to the subject header, no, the file(1) utility does not "report
viruses", and it did not do so in this case. What actually happened
was:
file /tmp/a.mm
/tmp/a.mm: fsav (linux) virus (29545-120)
It's saying it thinks that "a.mm" is a file from the F-Secure AntiVirus
(FSAV) for Linux package. file() may or may not be correct in that
guess, but you're overinterpreting its report, in any event.
John A. Kinsella wrote:
> Hi.
> A student brought me a short text file on a floppy (dos format).
>> Mounted floppy, & printed file
> get blank sheet!
This is a separate problem: You might want to look at the contents of
the file in a binary editor such as "beav".`
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