Rob Browning, on cfgtool's use of a binary file: > Not to be a stick in the mud, but why couldn't this be a text file? > It seems fairly unusual to make something like this binary. I did because I could sense my available hacking energy becoming low and wanted this out as soon as possible... Yes, a text file would be better. If I have the time, I'll rewrite it again, but it should now be much easier -- the changes should restricted to a couple of functions. OTOH, it's less than a thousand lines, so it'd be easy to rewrite everything from scratch, anyway. Anyway, as suggested by someone else, binary data will need to be encoded in some way. That should be trivial to do. Finally an excuse to learn base64...[1] -- Please read <http://www.iki.fi/liw/mail-to-lasu.html> before mailing me. Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. [1] And don't start suggesting altenrative encodings, please. It's either base64 or C's string notation. Or possibly both, depending on the data.
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