[Ecls-list] Load and filenames.

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Waldek Hebisch
<hebisch at math.uni.wroc.pl> wrote:
> Apparently, if file extension is unknown to 'load' it treats file
> as a Lisp file.  It would be nice if 'load' could decide file type
> based on content...

Simply put, I do not know how to code this in a portable way. Seems
like one should track all the magic file IDs of binary files on all
platforms where ECL could potentially be built.

Hmm, the only serious alternative I can think of is using the Unix
command "file" and interpreting its output to decide whether the
binary is executable (and hence fasl) or text (and hence potentially
lisp source).

Juanjo

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