crypt.el and correct compress-magic-regexp: "\037\235"

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From: Joerg-Cyril Hoehle
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 16:47

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Please correct all versions of crypt.el around that use a too specific
compress-magic-regexp number.

Lawrence R. Dodd (dodd@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu) wrote:
:
:    Here is modified version of Kyle Jones' crypt.el that will work with gzip
:    (GNU zip) files.
: 
: Share and Enjoy,
: 
: Larry
: 
: ;;; Compaction, compression, gzip'sion, and encryption for GNU Emacs
: ;;; Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1990 Kyle E. Jones

..

: (defconst compress-magic-regexp "\037\235\220"
:   "Regexp that matches the magic number at the beginning of files created
: by the compress(1) command.")


Kyle Jones <kyle@uunet.uu.net> told me:
>This is the correct one:
>
>(defconst compress-magic-regexp "\037\235"
>
>The \220 only appears on 16-bit compressed files.

Share and enjoy,
 	Joerg.
hoehle@inf-wiss.ivp.uni-konstanz.d

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Subject: crypt.el and correct compress-magic-regexp: "\037\235"
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Summary: "\037\235" is the correct compress-magic-regexp
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