[EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann ) wrote:
> One thing (to bring this more on-topic again) to note is that vim doesn't
> handle "large" (gigabytes) files nice, loading it into memory. The same
> is probably true for emacs. The only editor I know (I didn't test
millions
> of them though), th
Christopher W. Curtis wrote:
The downside to using 'ar', really, is that WinZip doesn't support it.
I haven't verified this - I hope a Windows user can do so for us. Just
for reference, attached below is a C&P of an ar archive I just made:
Hmm..that just seens just plain as no downside at a
On 07/17/03 19:41, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Christopher Curtis wrote:
>
>> even resemble XML. My "PREAMBLE" is valid XML. If they implement what
>> they have written, they don't even bother with things like closing tags
>> or putting parameters in quotes.
>
> A preamble, which
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Christopher Curtis wrote:
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:10:02 -0400
> From: Christopher Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: new-xcf [Re: Gimp-developer Digest, Vol 10,
> Issue 18]
> >
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:22:17 +0100
> From: Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Manish Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: new-xcf [Re: Gimp-developer Digest, Vol 10,
>
Manish Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't see a compelling argument to use zip/jar. It's complexity that
> doesn't buy us anything over ar.
$ ar t gimp1.2-print_4.2.5-4_i386.deb
debian-binary
control.tar.gz
data.tar.gz
The Debian dpkg ".deb" package format uses an ar archive with gzip
c
Alan Horkan wrote:
It is far better not to XML at all than to break XML.
(incidentally this is similar to what has been suggested for Cinepaint).
Just for the record ... I read the CinePaint file format, and it doesn't
even resemble XML. My "PREAMBLE" is valid XML. If they implement what
they
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If we really are in brainstorming mode here, following the suggestions
> listed above, how about a format something like the following, which is
> essentially just an XML preamble, followed by raw binary data:
> The nice thing about this is that it
