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Re: svn commit: r10971 - trunk/www

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: 2004-09-17 05:41:18 CEST

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 23:22, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Isn't a file which contains binary data (i.e. NULL bytes) a "binary"
> file?

The term "binary file" isn't that well-defined. If you tell people FSFS
uses a binary file format, they'll generally assume they won't be able
to make heads or tales of the rev files without specific knowledge.

(webopedia.com says "A binary file is computer-readable but not
human-readable.")

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