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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!Cadence.COM!dew
  3. From: dew@rocky.cadence.com (Dave Wilson)
  4. Subject: How to tell if you have an ASCII file
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.152123.5852@Cadence.COM>
  6. Originator: dew@rocky
  7. Keywords: ASCII
  8. Sender: dew@rocky (Dave Wilson)
  9. Nntp-Posting-Host: rocky
  10. Organization: Cadence Design Systems
  11. Distribution: usa
  12. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:21:23 GMT
  13. Lines: 5
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  16. I would like to be able to quickly tell if the file I am opening is ASCII text
  17. or some binary executable or data file.  Is there any way of foolproof way of doing this?
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  19. Thanks
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