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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: SCO's hacks to tar and compress
Message-ID: <15784@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 23 Aug 90 05:17:35 GMT
References: <307@sherpa.UUCP>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <307@sherpa.UUCP> rac@sherpa.UUCP (Roger Cornelius) writes:
>The extraction phase somehow senses the files are compressed 

The standard way to do this is to check for

	0x1f 0x9d

at the start of file.  Dump some .Z's some time...

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