Thanks Jacque. Have implemented that now. It just seems like there should be a less kludgy way to get hold of such a basic piece of information.
On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 10:46 AM J. Landman Gay <[email protected]> wrote: > That's what I do. If you use "open file" instead of URL syntax you can read > just the first few bytes without loading the whole stack into RAM and it's > very quick. > > > On February 6, 2016 12:02:32 PM Peter Haworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm happy to use the "with format" option, just trying to figure out how > > the get the stack file's format if it is to be saved in that format. I > did > > find a stackfileversion cprop in the cREVGeneral cprop set of some stacks > > but it was empty. There are other stacks where it is not present at > all. I > > guess I will have to open the stack file and read the first few > characters > > as detailed. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
