> IB> Does anyone have any code (or information) to recognise which archiver
 > IB> is used for compression (ZIP, ARC etc)?

 > Take a look at Squish. Squish's COMPRESS.CFG has comments
 > which tell you exactly how to identify various archivers
 > (non-exclusively).

Note that the order in which files are tested is important. For example,
many LZH and LHA format archives begin with ^Z, which is the signature used
for ARC.

Archive identification is relatively easy, actually. Detecting
self-extractors is a little more tricky. :-)

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