marcos@outland.UUCP (Marcos Della) (05/13/91)
Does anyone know what the "magic" numbers are or how various programs detect the type oc compression that was done on a file? I'd like to be able to determine if a file is .ZIP, .ARC, .LZH, or .ARJ just by looking at the first record of the file... Any clues? Marcos ____________________________________________________________________________ Marcos R. Della | Did you ever wonder if there was outland!marcos@petunia.CalPoly.EDU (home) | more to the universe than this? mdella@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (school) | marcos.della@f185.n125.z1.fidonet.org | ...I didn't...