Also sprach George Bonser:
} 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.
}
XML could be kind of useful here.
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