Hello; Can anyone point me to instruction/advice about opening and reading files that are not plain text: word processing docs, pdf, ps, image files, even complied code. I am writing a search function to search file systems and don't know a lot about the formatting of non plain text files. The immediate concern is line breaks in word processing docs, pdf and ps files. Then detecting compiled code files so I can leave them alone. This type of file might not have a suffix to consider. Then the various image files that might be encountered. Even suffixes aren't a guarantee of the content. Thanks Jeff K.
