The type byte in the file header indicated whether a file is an executable
or not. Apart from that, only very few other files have a distict type value
filled in (relocatable files (to be linked into an executable) and I used
them both in The PAINTER long time ago, and to indicate ProWesS external
modules.
Joachim
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Phoebus Dokos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 7:14 PM
Subject: [ql-users] Program type Identification
> Hmmm, since my knowledge on the matter is practically non-existent.... IS
> there a way (by reading for example x bytes of a file) to find from sbasic
> if a file is a Resident Extension, and Executable etc?
>
>
> Phoebus
>
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