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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On 29 Apr 2002, xeon wrote:

> I'm wondering, how to determine is a file is a text file, or a binary
> file, programatically.

The usual technique is to read a portion of a file, say, 16KB, and see if 
it contains null characters (`\0').