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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:50:42 +0000
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Subject: Re: auto-binary-mode?
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Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv> wrote:

> 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.

I agree with Andris and Morten, it must be an optional switch.

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