Steven Adams quickdry at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Sep 7 22:54:37 EDT 2000

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you might want to check out Mark Hammonds win32 extensions, it might be in
there.

it shouldn't be too hard to find out whether a file is binary or not, since
AFAIK Windows sets a flag to show whether a file is an executable/binary or
not. is that correct? I think I've read it somewhere....

all my executables and other binary files seem to be set as 'Archive' so I
guess you could use 'win32file' to check if the file you're trying to access
has FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE set.

just speculation, but it might work

Steven

"Anders M Eriksson" <anders.eriksson at morateknikutveckling.se> wrote in
message news:imefrs4r6svcpk7rsa617ps45u3eepi2hb at 4ax.com...
> Hello!
>
> Working on windows I need to know if the file I'm about to open is
> binary or ascii.
>
> How can I find out which the file is?
>
> // Anders
>

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