On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:01:06 -0700, Eric Brombaugh wrote: > Really makes > you wonder why binary files are so popular. Probably because it's easier > to do an fwrite()/fread() on a huge data structure in memory than to > write text input parsers.
Probably because binary formats promote vendor lock-in. There is a reason why the *.doc format has never been disclosed by Microsoft. ---<(kaimartin>)--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak http://lilalaser.de/blog _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
