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From: dsg@mitre-bedford.arpa (Dave Goldberg)
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Subject: Re: A couple questions
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Date: Tue, 21-Apr-87 13:13:06 EST
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>   I would believe that a pretty sure
>method would be to test the file
>permisions, if an "x" accours in the
>file permisions, then it is executable,
>other wise its text.

If only it were that easy.  However, I can make any text file have permission
of 755 (rwxrwxrwx) and still be a pure ascii file.  This is even useful in the
case of shell scripts.

Dave Goldberg
dsg@mitre-bedford.arpa

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