# INQUIRE: BINARY Specifier (W*S)

The BINARY specifier asks whether a file is connected to a binary file. It takes the following form:

BINARY = bin

bin | Is a scalar default character variable that is assigned one of the following values:
'YES' | If the file is connected to a binary file
'NO' | If the file is connected to a nonbinary file
'UNKNOWN' | If the file is not connected

Parent topic: INQUIRE Statement Specifiers