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From: de@dcl-cs.UUCP (David England)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Testing to see if a file is ASCII
Message-ID: <503@dcl-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 11:14:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: dcl-cs.503
Posted: Tue Sep 10 11:14:39 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Sep-85 06:00:53 EDT
Reply-To: de@dcl-cs.UUCP (David England)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University.
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Xpath: icdoc ivax

In the following piece of program to test for an ASCII file I know that
the commented values are magic numbers from a.out format files but I'm
curious to know what the other values represent ?

/* c is the first character in the file with descriptor f */
/* runs on UNIX 4.2 Vax or Sun */

switch ((c | *f->_ptr << 8) & 0177777) {
	case 0405:
	case 0407: /*magic number*/
	case 0410: /*magic number*/
	case 0411:
	case 0413: /*magic number*/
	case 0177545:
		printf("SomeErrorMessage");
	default:
	      break;
}

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