My /etc/magic file is corrupt. How to regenerate?

From: Robert Honore (robert@digi-data.com)
Date: Tue Oct 11 2005 - 11:21:53 EDT

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Dear Fellow Managers,

I have an AlphaServer ES40 running Compaq Tru64 UNIX version 4.0F. The
file /etc/magic seems corrupt. How do I regenerate the file?

The reason I suspect the /etc/magic file is corrupt is that the "file"
command returns several errors before printing any output, and when I
look at the contents of the file /etc/magic (using the more utility),
there are about a hundred lines of unrecognisable characters up near the
beginning of the file. Also, when I compare the contents of that file
to a /etc/magic on a known working system, it looks a lot different.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Yours sincerely,
Robert Honore.

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