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Re: Checking if a file is binary (non-textual)
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Checking if a file is binary (non-textual) |
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Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:49:43 +0200 |
> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:34:44 +0000
> From: Jeff Clough <jeff@chaosphere.com>
>
> MS systems tried to solve this by having a bit in the filesystem entry
> as a binary/text flag, but even that can't be trusted.
Which bit is that? AFAIK, the text/binary distinction is entirely on
the run-time library level, the filesystem and the low-level APIs to
the filesystem do not distinguish between text and binary. But I'll
be glad to learn something new.