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   James Kuyper to Kaz Kylheku   
   Re: is_binary_file()   
   11 Dec 25 18:15:15   
   
   From: jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu   
      
   On 2025-12-11 12:33, Kaz Kylheku wrote:   
   ...   
   > I'm still leaning toward my paranoid functionw hich just checks that   
   > every bit of every byte is either 0 or 1 to confirm that the binary   
   > system is used.   
   I'd be very interested in seeing how you implement that test, and even   
   more interested in what the test data looks like that you use to confirm   
   that a failure of that test is correctly flagged. :-)   
      
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