File Type Table

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Below find a table of the relation between file content type and preferred access mode.

File Access Modes Best Practice

Content		Mime Type		Typical Extension		Access Mode		Reading		Writing		Open Mode
Plain Text		text/plain		ini, txt, log		Sequential		INPUT		PRINT		read or write
Random Access						Random		GET		PUT		read and write (*)
Anything else				bmp, gif, doc, etc.		Binary		INPUT$()		PRINT		read and write (*)

(*) The file must be WRITE-able. So attempting to open a read-only file (or file from read-only media, like CD) for RANDOM or BINARY will fail.

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