File command output is different for same file on diff machine

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Published on 2011-06-28T07:10:36Z Indexed on 2011/06/28 8:24 UTC
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I get different output of file command on same file(checked inode) from different machines.

One of the machines is with suse10 sp3 and the another - rhel4.

machine1>file x.tcl 

x.tcl: ASCII English text

machin2>file x.tcl

x.tcl: data

Even in vi editor same file look different from different machine. Any clue? One more thing - there's third machine suse10 sp3 works fine. Is this machine issue?

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