Eric Brombaugh wrote: > > Yes! Just one of the advantages of text-based file formats. Really makes > you wonder why binary files are so popular. Well, it helps with vendor lock-in, too. And there can be speed issues. And if you do a bad enough job at designing the format, it can become a disk space issue -- witness the EDIF format: Every Disk Is Full.
> Probably because it's easier > to do an fwrite()/fread() on a huge data structure in memory than to > write text input parsers. Actually, being and old hand with lex/yacc (flex/bison), I find it is easier, quicker, and far more robust to do a good text file format. Flex/bison have a learning curve, but once you learn the idiom and a few "power tricks" they are the bee's knees. -dave _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
