Re: "Static planes value not equal to 1" (MK)

[Reynir Stefansson <reynirhs isl is>]

Sez MK:

> i have some short text files (literally just lists of fully qualified  
> file pathnames) put out by a basic perl routine that will not display  
> in the mc viewer because
>
> identify: Length and filesize do not match 'file.txt'.
> identify: Static planes value not equal to 1 'file.txt'.
>
> leading to "Empty output from child filter"
>
> However, MOST of the files from this routine are fine, and in any case  
> they ALL display without complaint in vim, gedit, cat, less, and  
> fulfill their purpose within perl.  But i like to be able to view them  
> my usual way of course and this message is disturbing to me...i can  
> find no informative reference to "Static planes value", etc.
>
> What does this mean?
>   

Most likely, identify, a part of the ImageMagick kit, is mistaking your 
text for images. Several image formats use a magic identifier that's a 
short text string. Check the text to see if there's a possible ID string 
in there.

Reynir H. Stefánsson (reynirhs mi is)
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