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DMSDOS 0.9.2.2

.TH cvftest 1 "10 Oct 1998" "dmsdos 0.9.2.0" "dmsdos CVF identification tool"
.SH NAME
cvftest \- dmsdos CVF identification tool
.SH SYNOPSIS

.BI cvftest " filename [-v]"

.SH DESCRIPTION
.I cvftest 
tries to find out whether the file (or device)
.I filename
is a CVF. It does so by reading the first 512 bytes from
.I filename
and checking for certain strings.

If
.I filename
is just a minus sign (-) the data are read from standard input.

If the switch
.I -v
is given the result of the test is printed to standard output including
a description about what kind of CVF was detected.

.SH RETURN VALUES
.I cvftest 
returns zero (i.e. true) if 
.I filename
has been recognized as a CVF. Otherwise it returns 1. A value >1
indicates an error (e.g. 
.I filename
does not exist or cannot be read).

.SH BUGS
This program is so simple that it could be a shell script. But I'm not a shell
hacker, so it's C.

The test is not idiot-proof. As it just checks for some magic values, it
might eventually misidentify other files as CVFs. These cases are supposed
to be extremely unlikely, though, and have never been reported yet. But if
you take a look at the source you easily find a way to fool the program :-)

.SH SEE ALSO

Refer to the dmsdos main documentation for further information.

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