[openbeos] Re: Identifying Text Files
- From: Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:58:23 +0200
On 2006-06-09 at 11:26:23 [+0200], Ville Koskinen <vrkosk@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Would it be possible to use the BSD/MIT-licensed file utility?
>
> ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-4.17.tar.gz
>
> It's a tool to guess what the file type is by taking a look at the
> beginning of the file, especially the first few bytes (called the (file)
> magic number). I think almost all variants of Unix have it, and it even
> includes a magic number to MIME type converter. If nothing else, the file
> src/ascmagic.c contains nice code to detect if the file is text or not and
> even guesses its encoding.
Thanks, that looks good indeed.
CU, Ingo
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