hI, iAN.

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

Here is something I found a couple of years ago. I seem to recall that
when I was writing something like that I used a bit more information,
but unfortunately that code got lost in a disaster.

Regards, fIM.

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  Here are the ones I know there OffSet in the File and the Sig.


  Format        OffSet           ASCII Sequence
  ------        ------           --------------

   ZIP            1               #80 + #75 + #3 + #4
   ARJ            1               #96 + #232
   LHA            3               #45 + #108 + #104
   ZOO            1               #90 + #79 + #79
   SQZ            1               #72 + #76 + #83 + #81 + #90
   PAK            1               #26 + #10
   ARC            1               #26


 * * The young know the rules, the old know the exceptions.
@EOT:

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