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Subject: Re: how to determine if a file is text/binary
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message news:<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1020430081409 DOT 3296J-100000 AT is>...
> The usual technique is to read a portion of a file, say, 16KB, and see if 
> it contains null characters (`\0').
Is there any other way? Test reading Kb's of data may not be an option
in this particular project.

TIA