Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:28:10 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: auto-binary-mode?
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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
> Hey, I just had an idea.  When a file is opened and the first block is
> read in, if the user didn't specify binary or text, why not look at
> the data and try to guess?  The presence of null, control, or certain
> 8-bit characters should indicate binary vs text as a default.
> 

Maybe slightly different:
   we can add additional open mode to allow to guess file type
   for example O_AUTO. 

Or some global variable that enables such feature. I don't think it
would be good to enable it always.

Andris