RE: [Dev-C++] Database program (how do i do that?)

[Ioannis V. <no...@ya...>]

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> From: dev...@li... 
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of Benjamin Levinn
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 2:30 AM
> To: Dev-C++
> Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] Database program (how do i do that?)
> 
> 
> Actually, text is, if anything, less portable than binary. Even 
> between Windows NT and 98 there is a difference in text: NT uses 
> unicode, while 98 uses an 8-bit character. Binary, however, is just a 
> collection of bits in no particular format at all, so it can 
> be ported to 
> any machine at all, and read, as long as the program reading it 
> knows how it is formatted.


Well the same file is created by the same exe in any windows version.
Also for ascii text files, there is no way something non-ascii
compatible is used. If this happened, then our text files would not be
readable by different machines, e.g. my html files that i create to my
machine and then place them on the web.



Ioannis
 
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