SCO's hacks to tar and compress

[Tom Neff]

In article <307 at sherpa.UUCP> rac at sherpa.UUCP (Roger Cornelius) writes:
>The extraction phase somehow senses the files are compressed 

The standard way to do this is to check for

	0x1f 0x9d

at the start of file.  Dump some .Z's some time...

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