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Re: A probably dumb question:
- Subject: Re: A probably dumb question:
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 03 Jan 2002 07:39:25 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
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Bart observed:
>I want something as easy as in PC land "humm, excel wont open this puppy,
>let's change the extension to "doc" and see what happens!" or a quickie thing
>
>that asks "Now human, I am smart, but I am not THAT smart! Where exactly did
>
>you leave that copy of Appleworks?" Is there anything like that in the Apple
>II world?
I'm sure there's something better, but my approach would be to look at the
first block or so of the file in a text or hex editor, and "pattern recognize"
the file type.
This is also what I do on the PC. I just open the file--ANY file--in WordPad
(since most are too big for NotePad) and look at the first few characters.
It's relatively easy to see UUENCODEd, .B64, .GIF, .JPG, .DOC, etc.
files from their first line or two. There's even a PC utility that automates
this type recognition, called WhatFormat.
-michael
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