I have a strange problem using ::fileutil::fileType.  I have a file
exported from the Windows registry section [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE] and it
is about 121MB in size.  When I run the ::fileutil::fileType on this
file it returns "binary audio mpeg".  This is odd because this file is
plain text.  However poking around the ::fileutil::fileType source code
I can **find** the characters that would trigger the file to be a binary
audio file.  These characters are located deep within the exported file.
So I shortened the file to 121 KB (starting from the bottom-the top part
remained the same) and now ::fileutil::fileType returns "text".

Further poking into ::fileutil::fileType reveals that it defines a
buffer size of 1024 and then reads 1024 bytes into the buffer and
immediately closes the file.  So I assume that it reads the first 1024
bytes to determine the file type.

Why is it behaving this way?


Thank you, Mike...
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