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+#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# tex: file(1) magic for TeX files
+#
+# From <conklin@talisman.kaleida.com>
+
+# Although we may know the offset of certain text fields in TeX DVI
+# and font files, we can't use them reliably because they are not
+# zero terminated. [but we do anyway, christos]
+0 string \367\002 TeX DVI file
+>16 string >\0 (%s)
+0 string \367\203 TeX generic font data
+0 string \367\131 TeX packed font data
+>3 string >\0 (%s)
+0 string \367\312 TeX virtual font data
+0 string This\ is\ TeX, TeX transcript text
+0 string This\ is\ METAFONT, METAFONT transcript text
+
+# There is no way to detect TeX Font Metric (*.tfm) files without
+# breaking them apart and reading the data. The following patterns
+# match most *.tfm files generated by METAFONT or afm2tfm.
+2 string \000\021 TeX font metric data
+>33 string >\0 (%s)
+2 string \000\022 TeX font metric data
+>33 string >\0 (%s)
+
+# Texinfo and GNU Info, from Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com)
+0 string \\input\ texinfo Texinfo source text
+0 string This\ is\ Info\ file GNU Info text
+
+# TeX documents, from Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com)
+0 string \\input TeX document text
+0 string \\section LaTeX document text
+0 string \\setlength LaTeX document text
+0 string \\documentstyle LaTeX document text
+0 string \\chapter LaTeX document text