[openbeos] Re: Identifying Text Files

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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