Portability across architectures..
T. William Wells
bill at proxftl.UUCP
Thu Sep 15 06:00:27 AEST 1988
In article <7038 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs at adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
: I'm not sure how using ASCII data formats could "hamper a
: products' marketability." If not an efficiency concern, it's
: probably some attempt to keep information hidden in a cryptic
: binary format rather than having it in plain text that anyone
: could read.
One major reason for using binary over ASCII is that the binary
is usually going to be more compact. If your data files *have*
to fit in some specified amount of disk space (like one floppy
disk), the difference might be critical.
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Bill
novavax!proxftl!bill
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