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I tried using a two lettered Linux application to count the characters in the paragraph but the answer i get 593 is somehow incorrect. Is there some mistake that I could be making that would produce an incorrect output for that application? Plz pardon the noobishness of this question.

sweet! thanks for the info!

all things aside above, is there a way to analyze the file and deduce that it is a gzip archive? Other than running it through gzip i mean