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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: LHarc magic number query
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Date: 20 Dec 89 05:22:25 GMT
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In <10296.AA10296@heimat>, sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
>[eat this ms line eater]
>
> Does anyone know of a magic number sequence for the "LHarc" archive files?
> Ive made several test files and it lookes like the first couple of bytes
> are never the same.

I just checked about 20 .lzh files with a handy little utility called dumpdiff,
and they all share a common string in offset start+2, for 5 bytes.


00000000:  1C492D6C 68312D85  .I-lh1-.  |  23832D6C 68312D26  #.-lh1-&
               ^^^^^^^^^^^      ^^^^^          ^^^^^^^^^^^      ^^^^^
                  hex           ASCII            hex            ASCII

-larry

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