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From: davidle@microsoft.UUCP (David LEVINE)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: More secret messages
Message-ID: <10308@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 90 20:40:47 GMT
References: <1191@husc6.harvard.edu> <3543@hub.UUCP> <1220@husc6.harvard.edu> <5866@orca.wv.tek.com> <191@jabberwock.shs.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <191@jabberwock.shs.ohio-state.edu> Michel Jackson <jackson@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>I have heard that the "magic number" in the first two
>bytes of MS-DOS *.EXE files is ASCII "MZ" - for Mark Zibokowski (sp? -
>forgive me MZ if you're out there) - the designer of the EXE format
>that came in with MSDOS 2 (?).
>	---michel jackson

Mark Zbikowski says "its true".

David Levine