What is this?

[MR.CD:\]

Hey:

I'm playing a gameonline, and, one of the things I have to figure out has me stumped. Look:

begin 666 Classified.zip
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M4[N.U$`0S%?:?VCR/>\A`J1+$!DK#@G0(4A[[;8]V)XV\]C!?T_U^'@$)/OP
M5%5758_?#N+3Z7@X'BXTZBIT(5XH\3PY/U!22J-0<,.840U3?D>CQTD9SO
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The site says this is not encrypted text, but a "popular encoding"
therefor I thought it meant it's programming language. Because of the "begin" and "end" statements, I thought it looked a little like pascal to me, but the body has me stumped.
I ask: What does this look like to you?

P.S> I don't want the full answer to what it contains or anything, just what it looks like.

another thing, the smilies are actually the characters used in it that this thing thought were smilies. So, they aren't, they're actually, in order, a : and a ), and a : and a (

[jaguar291]

This was already posted somewhere.. I'll try to find the link if I can...

[DjM]

cough winzip cough


Cheers:

[alittlebitnumb]

It's a zip file.

Pascal looks like:

... Procedure EndGraph;
Begin
  CloseGraph
End;


(* Draw semilog Axis *)
Procedure AxisLog(Dir : Dimension;
                  Mmin,Mmax :Single  ;
                  Plot_L,Plot_R,Plot_T,Plot_B: integer;
                  AxisLabel : string);
(* Draw semilog Axis *)

(* This proceedure will draw a semilog axis to fit the points of a
   function begining at Mmin and ending at Mmax, according to
   plot specifications. *)
...

Were you dropped on your head as a child?

[noODle]

This game would not accidentaly be mod-x now would it ?
I think you should start by using some google skills and search for the most popular encoding techniques. I cannot tell you what exactly it is because I am participating in this game and it would be against the rules.

I sure hope you can figure it out::Good luck.

[MR.CD:\]

Thanks Nood

[jaguar291]

I see that your question has been answered but I found the link for what its worth:
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...Classified.zip