Joel Klecker writes: > However, I have run across a patch that adds an option that does use magic > numbers to guess which compression program to use. The URL was posted on > gnu.misc.discuss some months ago, but it is unfortunately not on dejanews.
For things like that, I have developped a utility function which, among other things, identifies by magic most compressed formats (ie. .Z, .gz, .bz2, .lzo - I didn't add .bz, but that would be tricky), can additionnaly do a magic-identification on the compressed data, and is safe regarding non-seekable files. It can be found in the console-tools package (see slink - still in Incoming for now), as function findfile() in libctutils (/usr/include/lct/utils.h). Note that I stillconsider this to be in alpha stage - it has to be made more modular. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.a2points.com/homepage/3475232 | Check <http://www.debian.org/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
