Re: open an existing file in buffer and write on it

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 11:45 -0800, Andrew Potter wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Andrew Potter <agpotter gmail com> wrote:
>
> > [...] blah blah blah.
> On second reading this comes off as a little flippant, my apologies.
> You made a good point, and I should have prefaced my example with links to
> "proper" serialization tools.

Apology accepted :-)

The important point is that the user's data belongs to the data, not to
the program, so using a suitably open file format is in its way as
important as using Free software.

That it's easier for the programmers to create and read
application-specific binary files is a problem that would be worth
fixing.

Liam

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