Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: press for cygwin References: <3B939A12.5040009@ece.gatech.edu> <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E334@IIS000> <3B939A12.5040009@ece.gatech.edu> <5.1.0.14.2.20010903174134.02c8ae40@imap.local.mscha.com> <20010903120301.A2259@redhat.com> From: Andrew Markebo Date: 03 Sep 2001 18:30:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20010903120301.A2259@redhat.com> Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii | I mentioned the magic number method. That would actually work. That is | why I suggested it. Just a thought, doesn't gzip and bzip2 have 'magic numbers' already? The first two bytes in the files is "BZ" or "GZ"? Hmm checked a bzip2-file, it has BZ in the beginning, couldn't see similar in gzip.. ahh well.. /Andy -- The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/