On 2/25/06, Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Maciej Soltysiak wrote: > > > Code files, DNS zones, configuration files, HTML code. We are still > > dealing with lots of text files today. > > You say it like it's a bad thing, but in truth I suspect > people often deal with text files because they're EASY > to manipulate through scripts, etc. >
I agree 100%, plain text serial files are *easy*. Given the swiss-army knife of tools we have at our disposal (cat, cut, head, tail, sed, awk, split, sort, grep and many more), plain text files are very easy to manipulate - not to mention write apps to manipulate. And that is a very good thing IMHO. I can imagine quite a mess if I open a file that is really a view of several files and then start manipulating text in it across "actual file" boundaries that could blow up easily. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html