posted 18 years ago
Basically, you can read any file type in as a binary stream. The trick is in making some sense of the format. For example, if you read in an xls file, you would need to know how xls files are structured before you could do anything with the data.
Here's one source for different file format information...
http://www.wotsit.org/
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