[EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann ) wrote:
One thing (to bring this more on-topic again) to note is that vim doesn't
handle large (gigabytes) files nice, loading it into memory. The same
is probably true for emacs. The only editor I know (I didn't test
millions
of them though), that
Christopher W. Curtis wrote:
The downside to using 'ar', really, is that WinZip doesn't support it.
I haven't verified this - I hope a Windows user can do so for us. Just
for reference, attached below is a CP of an ar archive I just made:
Hmm..that just seens just plain as no downside at
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we really are in brainstorming mode here, following the suggestions
listed above, how about a format something like the following, which is
essentially just an XML preamble, followed by raw binary data:
The nice thing about this is that it
Alan Horkan wrote:
It is far better not to XML at all than to break XML.
(incidentally this is similar to what has been suggested for Cinepaint).
Just for the record ... I read the CinePaint file format, and it doesn't
even resemble XML. My PREAMBLE is valid XML. If they implement what
they
Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't see a compelling argument to use zip/jar. It's complexity that
doesn't buy us anything over ar.
$ ar t gimp1.2-print_4.2.5-4_i386.deb
debian-binary
control.tar.gz
data.tar.gz
The Debian dpkg .deb package format uses an ar archive with gzip
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Roger Leigh wrote:
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:22:17 +0100
From: Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: new-xcf [Re: Gimp-developer Digest, Vol 10,
Issue
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Christopher Curtis wrote:
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:10:02 -0400
From: Christopher Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: new-xcf [Re: Gimp-developer Digest, Vol 10,
Issue 18]
It is far
On 07/17/03 19:41, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Christopher Curtis wrote:
even resemble XML. My PREAMBLE is valid XML. If they implement what
they have written, they don't even bother with things like closing tags
or putting parameters in quotes.
A preamble, which is
