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Re: simple database solution without root access



On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
>>> My typical experience is that when people distinguish "text" vs
>>> "binary" files, they mean the whole file can reasonably be made sense
>>> of in a text editor (that's not a precise definition, of course, but I
>>> think it serves the purpose).  When I open an SQLite database I have
>>> handy with emacs, it is rife with nulls and other non-printing
>>> characters.
>>
>> That's what i meant by "text", yes.
>>
>> Perl::DBI + SQLite seems to be taking the lead.
>
> Uhm, so, you mean, you can reasonably make sense of it with hexdump
> -C? (Or a custom hexdump that handles your brand of multi-byte
> characters, perhaps?)

If it's really that mission-critical to you, the quotation part i was
referring to is this:

>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
>>> My typical experience is that when people distinguish "text" vs
>>> "binary" files, they mean the whole file can reasonably be made sense
>>> of in a text editor (that's not a precise definition, of course, but I
>>> think it serves the purpose).

Not this:

>>> When I open an SQLite database I have
>>> handy with emacs, it is rife with nulls and other non-printing
>>> characters.

It was obvious - to me of course. My bad, i should've trimmed it.

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