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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Binary data file compatibility across machines
Message-ID: <14568@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 90 02:03:22 GMT
References: <prk.659625326@pegasus>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <prk.659625326@pegasus>, by prk@planet.bt.co.uk (KnightRider):
> stiber@cs.ucla.edu (Michael D Stiber) writes:
>>However, in my application,
>>ASCII would produce files that are way too huge --- I must use a binary
>>format.

I suppose you have considered using "compress" and "uncompress" in
conjunction with ascii files, but I thought I would just mention it.

Also, you don't have to use the obvious ascii encoding either. That
converts one binary nibble into an ascii char, doubling the data size.
It's not at all hard to get a ratio of 4/3 as uuencode does.