On 23/10/2009, Jeff Wormsley <dawor...@comcast.net> wrote: > > That's dangerous, though, if your magic number's two bytes aren't printable
That should never be a problem for my tool though. The tool I am writing is specific to the INF help format. The tool dumps the file structure to a text file. (I need this for debugging purposes) When my app processes a file, it reads the first 155 bytes (header information), then does a numerical check of the magic number in the header. If it's an unknown value, it stops right there. If it's a known value, it continues at which point it starts outputing the text to file. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
