Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > As it is not you are not all-files-type-proof, if I tried to load the > lyx binary as a graphcs file it would most likely fail, or just read > _a lot_ too much.
please edit, I never did it in this way (reading from a file) support/filetools.C - getExtFromContents() char dummy[64]; // my brain thinks binary ... [...] ifs.read(dummy, 64); str = string(dummy); [...] Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/