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 > modification to existing code bases, where you only need to hook into 
 > whatever is parsing the field, and do not need to touch much else. 
 > In contrast adding a new "!" variant might imply new entire 
 > parsing functions, or refactoring them to support the different struct 
 > sizes, and also the detection of the new magic value and its length. 
 > It would also imply that things like file(1) would be completely 
 > unaware of this new format. 
 > 
 > For the base-256 extension I've implemented extraction support already 
 > in dpkg-deb (need creation support and testing whether it works, 
 > although it's based on its existing tar base-256 support :). 
 > 
 > (See for example: 
 > ) 
 > 
 > Thanks, 
 > Guillem 
  
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