next
1: the starting situation






next
2: the content of unknown.dat seen with a hex editor






next
3: start comtype_scan2.bat to see the accepted arguments and the optional ones (uncompressed file size)






next
4: pass the needed arguments to comtype_scan2.bat and start it






next
5: you will see various crashes during this operation, don't worry and click ever on Close






next
6: some algorithms will also freeze so if nothing happens within 3 seconds press CTRL-C and type 'n'






next
7: finally all the test files have been dumped in our output_folder, now check them with a hex editor






next
8: cool, the test file 22 seems to contain data with a sense, it's the perfect one






9: open defs.h and go to see what's the algorithm of that test number