Bug report (?) -- 2.10 in Linux

[Erik Siers]

I'm pretty sure that I had TrID working on previous versions of Slackware, but when I tried running it on a clean install of 13.37 (the current version) I got this error:

bash-4.1$ trid image_disp.jpeg

TrID/32 - File Identifier v2.10 - (C) 2003-11 By M.Pontello

File /usr/local/bin\triddefs.trd not found!
No definitions available! You can download an up to date
defs library from TrID's page at http://mark0.net

triddefs.trd is indeed in /usr/local/bin (as is TrID itself) -- I also copied it to /usr/local/etc and /usr/local/lib to see if that would magically fix it. (It didn't.) TrID works fine as long as the .trd file is in the current directory... 

Note the backslash (\) in the listed path (/usr/local/bin\triddefs.trd). If you change the byte (in the compiled app) at 0xf6b4 (or &hf6b5 for BASIC) from "\" to "/", this problem is fixed; that tells me that this might very well be a bug. Might want to check your sources.

[Mark0]

Thanks, will surely have a look!

[Erik Siers]

Here's a BASIC script to patch the executable as I mentioned above. Works in Michael Haardt's bas (http://www.moria.de/~michael/bas/) and FreeBASIC; should work in pretty much any QBasic-alike, and possibly others (untested); does  NOT work in Chipmunk Basic (http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/; no BINARY mode).

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(patch removed; not needed for current version)
Save that to a file ("patch-trid.bas" or whatever) and then run it in the directory containing the trid executable:
    bas patch-trid.bas

This only needs to be run once -- running it again does nothing except waste your time.

Note that this is only for TrID 2.10 for Linux dated 14 Feb 2011 -- this will probably do Bad Things^TM to other versions.

[Mark0]

Now there's a new 2.11 Linux version with this bug fixed.

[Erik Siers]

Awesome. Works beautifully.