Hi Paul

How do you mean " hex dump of the first 256 characters"! Where from? do you mean the output from running the Copmress::LZF based script? Well this returned
compressed data corrupted (size mismatch) at z.pl line 5.
And the output from running Archice::Zip or Compress::Zlib returned an output similar to what you get if you open a bin file using a text editer (lots of goobldi gook on the screen including lots beeps)! do you still want me to post this output? aNYWAY HERE IS THE OUTPUT
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Blackadder

In reply to Re^4: Decoding .z and .gz files by blackadder
in thread Decoding .z and .gz files by blackadder

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