encoded files

[dmitry]

Hi!

How can i determine : is p-file encoded or not?
(signature , etc... ?)
I need this to block two-times p-file encoding.

/dmi

 

[Gabor Topor]

Hi,

Under UNIX you may use 'file' command. It returns different values for ascii and xcoded files.


Regards,
Gabor

 

[dmitry]

Hi!

Originally posted by Gabor Topor

Under UNIX you may use 'file' command. It returns different values for ascii and xcoded files.

Ok, i tried to run 'file' command. But how i can tune it ?
Some of our codes contains cyrillic symbols and tune says, that
this file is data file.

In my case all encoded files begins with 11h or 13h...

Regards,
DMItry

 

[Chris Kelleher]

If you add the lines below to the end of your /etc/magic file, then you can use the file command to determine if a file contains x-code.

# The next 5 lines should be added to the end of the /etc/magic file
0 char 0x11 Progress X-Code
0 char 0x13 Progress V8 X-Code
0 long 0x56ced309 Progress R-Code
0 long 0x09d3ce56 Progress R-Code byte-swapped