From: porkchop@invalid.foo   
      
   On Sat, 6 Dec 2025 20:37:22 -0500, James Kuyper wrote:   
      
   > NULL is a macro that expands to a null pointer constant. I think you   
   > mean "null character". This isn't just nit-picking -C is a   
   > case-sensitive language, so it's essential to pay attention to case.   
      
   Of yeah. I'm at the stage of simultaneously getting a lot wrong,   
   a lot right, & that makes my code dangerous at times. I'm slowly   
   getting there.   
      
   > You should return a distinct value for file open failure - a file that   
   > cannot be opened cannot be determined to be either a text or a binary file.   
      
   Noted.   
      
   > You really cannot distinguish with certainty whether a file is a text   
   > file or a binary file based solely upon the contents. A file whose   
   > format is an array of two-byte 2's complement little-endian integers   
   > would normally be considered binary, yet it might happen to contain   
   > integers whose bytes all happen to be printable characters.   
      
   Ah, I want it to be simple, but that's not the case.   
      
   > This implies the use of the isprint() function; the only other   
   > characters you need to handle specifically are '\t', '\n', and ' '.   
   > Since the result returned by isprint() is locale-dependent, the program   
   > should, at least optionally, use setlocale().   
      
   Hmm, now that's a curve-ball I did not see coming! I've got to think   
   about this...   
      
   Paul, thank you for sharing your knowledge, I appreciate your help sir.   
      
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