On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:57:37AM -0400, Jonathan Dill wrote:
> 
> ... .  With even more luck, you might figure out what 
> compression algorithm was used, for example "gzip" compressed data 
> almost always begins with the same character string,
> but I forget what it is, 

See /etc/magic for the list of "magic numbers" the file(1) uses.

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