tdb overkill ?
David Collier-Brown
davecb at canada.sun.com
Wed Dec 5 04:49:02 GMT 2001
David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> Are they really? A text file can be edited by both automated tools and by
> humans. I worry a little about going in the direction of having opaque
> structures like the Windows Registry, that you can't fix by hand when they
> get corrupt...
As long as there is a load/dump utility, you can
live with binary data structures. If not,
the author will reconsider after the first disk
crash.
Except, of course, at PC/Windows companies, where
the authors never actually use their own programs:
those ones tend to suffer from more than just
binary data, though (;-))
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