steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia) (10/31/88)
Posting-number: Volume 5, Issue 28 Submitted-by: "Steve Nuchia" <steve@nuchat.UUCP> Archive-name: compress.magic 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. 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. 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 -- 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