Re: svn commit: r10971 - trunk/www

On Sep 16, 2004, at 10:41 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:

> 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.
>

Ugh, the problem is that most people assume "human readable" means,
"it's all ascii!", and folks assume that "computer readable" means "it
looks like a bunch of random garbage." Both the fsfs format and
dumpfile format seem to live in the nether regions. They're both
mostly human-readable, but aren't pure ascii either. Oh well. I guess
it's best to not call them "binary" formats.

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Received on Fri Sep 17 06:14:05 2004