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Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 22:03:50 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: UPX & The "file" Command
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Hi,

I decided to give the UPX-compressed pre-release / release candidate of 
Setup.exe a try.

It's interesting to see that UPX compresses better even than bzip2. I 
suppose that's because UPX is specifically designed for executable files. 
It's also very nice that the compressed file remains directly executable.

Anyway, I was wondering if someone who knows what the proper magic file 
entries should be for detecting a UPX-compressed binary could supply them 
(assuming there is a discernable signature for these files)?

Likewise, if the magic file entry (-ies) could be added or submitted to the 
appropriate maintainer for inclusion in the Cygwin or the primary "file" 
distribution, that would great.


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


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