On Sat, 8 Apr 2000 yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> The problem is that ASCII/UNIX-file-system is a generic, exportable,
> and long lasting solution, while every binary format known to humankind
> has been painful, limited, and rapidly obsoleting. Perhaps the solution is
> faster tools for manipulating text files.
Or perhaps a common format for the text files would help. Some kind of
delimiter standard would be helpful ... tabs turn into spaces sometimes,
are multiple spaces multiple empty fields? I would like to see a comma or
some other ... any other ... char be used as a standard field delimiter.
Hard to tell the difference between multiple empty fields and just a lot
of white space within a field if one is using spaces.
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