From: martindemello@... (Martin DeMello)
Date: 2002-10-07T00:11:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby to approximate 'file'?

Austin Ziegler <austin@halostatue.ca> wrote in message news:<20021005055015.CIXT20369.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@hogwarts>...
> Is there a file-type detection script available for Ruby, similar to 
> the unix 'file' program? At a minimum, is there a way in Ruby to 
> reliably tell the difference between a binary file format and a text 
> file format?

There's a native win32 port of 'file', if that helps:

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html

martin