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In article <47fb17d2.81da@digital.sps.mot.com>, chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen) writes:
> It's much easier to write a program to identify the compression format 
> and call appropriate compression program to handle the data file. Under UNIX,
> this is trival as each of these four compression schemes has an unique 'magic' 
> number. The UNIX command `file' can be used for such application. If you add 
> following lines in the 'magic' file (/etc/magic), the command should be able 
> to identify the format of an compressed file:
> [omitted entries for /etc/magic file]

If somebody is interested: i have done a port of this file-program some time
ago when it was posted to comp.sources.unix. I have also collected some magic
numbers used by st-programs. The program can be used to identify files as
executables, objects, sources for some language and even to provide
informations about them like name of the font in a GDOS font file or size of
the various sections (TEXT, DATA, BSS) in executables.
If i get enough requests, i could post the binary and/or source to the
comp.{binaries,sources}.atari.st group (of course with all the collected
st-specific entries for /etc/magic).

	- Edgar
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