v05i028: /etc/magic lines for compress

[Guy Harris]

>Not only is this better,

This assertion has now been made twice.  I have yet to see any evidence
for its truth.  The strings in "/etc/magic" correspond, in at least the
two cases I cited (compressed files and packed files), to C-language
strings; could somebody please explain why expressing them as numbers in
a standard byte order, rather than as the strings they are, is somehow
"better"?