On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: >> My typical experience is that when people distinguish "text" vs >> "binary" files, they mean the whole file can reasonably be made sense >> of in a text editor (that's not a precise definition, of course, but I >> think it serves the purpose). When I open an SQLite database I have >> handy with emacs, it is rife with nulls and other non-printing >> characters. > > That's what i meant by "text", yes. > > Perl::DBI + SQLite seems to be taking the lead.
Uhm, so, you mean, you can reasonably make sense of it with hexdump -C? (Or a custom hexdump that handles your brand of multi-byte characters, perhaps?) > -- > "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- Joel Rees On the internet, nobody knows you're a human. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caar43ioaehazyn-pksaaks5_yxr7k-2tznqnnvbdvfqfyeb...@mail.gmail.com
