From: fano AT norcov DOT com (Dr. Norman Fahrer)
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 23:01:16 -0700
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: 'file' util for dos


Hi all,

I looked in the gnu-utils to find some port of
the 'file' utility of unix to the DOS environment,
but couldn't find it. 
My problem is that I want the find out if a 
given file is either binary or text. 

More precise :

I use the DOS ported awk and want to make sure
that the file it works on is NOT a binary but
a TEXT file, so not to run into the 'out of memory'
problem that occures when the record which is read
in is the entire file.

What would be a good way to prevent that the awk
is fed with a NOT-text file (under DOS) ? 

Thanks to all for your kind help !
Norman

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