Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion
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.
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