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- Article 705 of comp.sources.misc:
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- From: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.misc
- Subject: v05i028: /etc/magic lines for compress
- Message-ID: <2643@nuchat.UUCP>
- Date: 31 Oct 88 02:59:39 GMT
- Sender: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
- Reply-To: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
- Organization: Public Access - Houston, Tx
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- Approved: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
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- Posting-number: Volume 5, Issue 28
- Submitted-by: "Steve Nuchia" <steve@nuchat.UUCP>
- Archive-name: compress.magic
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- This is one of those little throw-away things that normally
- don't get posted. It was pointed out to me recently that
- we need to make an extra effort to get this kind of stuff
- out, so here it is.
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- If you have a file(1) compatible with the one in sysVr3
- adding the following lines to /etc/magic will make it
- recognize compressed files. I was motivated to add this
- when I imported a bunch of files from BSD systems and the .Zs
- all got lopped off.
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- 0 short 40223 compressed data
- >2 byte <0200 - %d bits
- >2 byte 0214 - 12 bits
- >2 byte 0215 - 13 bits
- >2 byte 0220 - 16 bits
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- Steve Nuchia | [...] but the machine would probably be allowed no mercy.
- uunet!nuchat!steve | In other words then, if a machine is expected to be
- (713) 334 6720 | infallible, it cannot be intelligent. - Alan Turing, 1947
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