--- magic/Localstuff
+++ magic/Localstuff	2013-09-30 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -5,3 +5,12 @@
 # $File: Localstuff,v 1.5 2007/01/12 17:38:27 christos Exp $
 # Add any locally observed files here.  Remember:
 # text if readable, executable if runnable binary, data if unreadable.
+
+# XXX promoted from tex so that *.tfm is not mis-identified as mc68k file.
+# There is no way to detect TeX Font Metric (*.tfm) files without
+# breaking them apart and reading the data.  The following patterns
+# match most *.tfm files generated by METAFONT or afm2tfm.
+2	string		\000\021	TeX font metric data
+>33	string		>\0		(%s)
+2	string		\000\022	TeX font metric data
+>33	string		>\0		(%s)