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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Feeping Creaturism
Message-ID: <8802250823.AA09003@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 25 Feb 88 08:23:15 GMT
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:I agree that it is desirable to keep the file small, and to make it easily
:transferable to another machine, or a printer, or whatever.  But suppose
:it were easy to move it into and out of IFF.  And further suppose that the
:IFF file were maintained in a compressed form.  Knowing that the file is
:source code makes it easy to do something like maintain it
:pre-tokenized.  This would make the compile go (a little) faster, too.
:And unless IFF added a lot of overhead, it should be pretty easy to
:make the file SMALLER than the pure ascii file it stands for.

	I used to set my tabs to 4 in VI (on my UNIX account). (I *like*
	using the TAB key).

	It is quite easy to expand them to spaces before sending them to a
	printer (expand -4 file).

	I no longer have my tabs set to 4 in VI.

	It just got ridiculous.. every time I wanted to do something with
	the file other than VI it I had to expand it.

					-Matt