On 7 Jun 2003 at 17:31, Craig Parmerlee wrote: > At 03:58 PM 6/7/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >On 7 Jun 2003 at 0:35, Craig Parmerlee wrote: > > > > > It is no different with Word, Excel or any other end-user application. > > > >Really, would you *stop* using these completely invalid comparisons > >to programs that have file formats that are several orders of > >magnitude less complex? > > Come on, man. You're talking nonsense here. Finale isn't orders of > magnitude more complex than Word. Quite the reverse.
I didn't say *Finale* was orders of magnitude more complex. I said the Finale *file format* is more complex. > Before lecturing me, educate yourself on the file system that Microsoft > implemented in the early 1990s as the architectural foundation for storing > files from all of their complex Office applications. It is the foundation > for auto save, incremental save, versioning, and backwards compatibility. Pointers. It uses pointers. Big frigging deal. Finale files are a database, with parent and child records (frames are parents, notes are children of the frame, etc.). This is a far, far more complicated structure than Word. Excel is more complicated, though, as it does something much more complicated. But it's not at all as complex as a Finale file. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
