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

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ioannis Vranos [mailto:no...@ya...] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 4:52 AM
> To: Dev-C++ (dev...@li...)
> Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] Database program (how do i do that?)
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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.

Also when we write in text mode non-characters, we see garbage. Anyway
in a few words, text files *are* portable and can be shared among
applications (from this concept XML was thought, text is read by
anything).



Ioannis
 
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