Johnny Billquist wrote: > But if we're getting back into that you need a tool to convert the > text for local usability, then you loose that whole point about the > suggested format as transparently giving you the text again, and you > might as well go with another format that is a bit more compact?
Yes, if there were a significant amount of files that would be garbled by the simple transformation. But to me it seems like a win if 99% of all files are readable as is, and the possible 1% that aren't are still encoded losslessly so they can be put through further transformations if necessary. Core dump isn't more compact, it's exactly the same size. And 0% of all text files are readable. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
