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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: proposed standard
Message-ID: <1991Jun23.173516.5974@decuac.dec.com>
Date: 23 Jun 91 17:35:16 GMT
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	Maybe I missed it, but is there any consideration given to some
kind of magic numbers to help identifying the proper means of decompressing
compressed output produced by one of the "standard" compressors?

mjr.