Telling "processing only" from a report

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Mike Schwartz (Wed, 17 May 2006 12:29:58 -0500):

>      Is there any easy way to tell whether an out.* file is a
> processing-only file, or whether it is a report or any other printed
> output, other than to actually open it?  (SCO Unix 5.0.6, filePro
> 5.0.14)
>
>      The only thing I can see is to use a file size cutoff of something
> like 250 bytes, so that I can skip reviewing any "processing only" out.*
> files. I'm not sure if that will be very accurate, but it seems to work.
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Check out:

    http://www.fptech.com/Products/Docs/FPFormat/screen40.shtml

At offset 26 is a 16-bit value:

    128    	Form or Label
    129    	Report
    131    	"Other"
    132    	Screen
    178    	Processing only format

Yes, something will have to open the file and examine it, but you
can write a small utility in just about any language to do it for
you, rather than having to run dmoedef on everything.

In fact, a few lines added to /etc/magic could do most of the work
for you (I did something like that way back in filePro 1.0), and
then a simple grep would weed out the prc-only items.

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