decrypting htpasswd

[Mulley, Nikhil]

Hi All,
[Meant for Linux Hackers...Well I know all here belong to the same community ;)]
However , I have managed to get the htpasswd file of some other site..
this htpasswd file has the fileds like..
Username:Password
(which I guess has some DES encryption and as the salt does not seem to be start with $1$ which resembles hashing with MD5)
So , Question is how can I ask my John(the Ripper) to start cracking this file to give me the password...
 
Any one any thoughts/ideas ?
 
~Nikhil.
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