Jon LaBadie wrote:
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.
On Linux, that's often burried in /usr/share somewhere these days, for
example I just checked on Mandrake 10 it's /usr/share/misc/file/magic,
"rpm -q -l file" will help on RPM-based systems, or "locate" (from
slocate if installed) might help find it.
