On Dec 1, 2003, at 4:27 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I don't think it's a bug as much as a very useful feature with unintended
consequences for binary data: in old versions of the engine, folks
complained that data stored in user properties did not have the automatic
cross-platform conversion as text in fields enjoy. So several versions ago
this was changed to allow the same for user props.
The downside to the change is that for the minority of user props containing
binary data this conversion will cause trouble, often making the data
unusable (as is the case if the data is compressed).
When did that happen? I thought that custom properties are a place where binary data was really safe in Rev.
In either case I misunderstood Mark's question. I thought he meant compressing data X on two different platforms would yield 2 different chunks of binary data.
Maybe we need a flag to note whether a property is text or binary? Should
it be a stack property?
Just as a transcript notation you mean? Sounds useful
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