On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt> >> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@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, [...]
:) (Personally, anything I can read with my customized hexdump is close enough to text for me, but I really don't have an ore in this stream. Sorry. Glad you're finding a way forward with SQLite, even though the result won't be quite as directly amenable to awk.) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caar43im6_wzjg8ebnqwt5wmhuasskub16219zunu26yovmx...@mail.gmail.com