file magic number

[David Messer]

In article <41719 at eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> haozhou at acsu.buffalo.edu (hao zhou) writes:
 >Can anybody out there tell me how to figure out the file magic number
 >on unix? If possible, can somebody post a piece of sample code?

What do you mean by "the" file magic number?  Each file type
(that uses them) has it's own magic number.  Take a look at
/etc/magic (on SysV) to get some examples.
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