On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 06:20, John Levon wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 07:35:07AM +1030, Darren Freeman wrote: > > > What is the goal? > > > > The representation of the user's data is the goal, as I see it. > > There is more than one goal. And adding ugly compression code is a > stupid thing to do before considering sensible limitation of the data > itself.
Doesn't have to be more than calls to zlib, as I understand it. Or at it's laziest, calls to gzip =) > > Fortunately this thing called source coding allows us to do both: create > > an easy to read text file, then store it with an efficiency close to 100 > > %. It's not a hack at all, it's called information theory. I see no > > reason not to use it here. It's just like creating a water-tight file > > format which can be converted to human-readable form, only done the > > other way around. > > I hate binary document files, yes, even when they're just compressed. Wha? So you like a document.txt file, but hate it when it's document.txt.gz ??? > I don't think it's useful Why not? It's smaller isn't it? In the case of some LyX files, by a factor of 10 to 20. At any rate it's interesting to me. And I'm sure it's useful to lots of people. I would appreciate the option, even if it's not the default and is stealthily hidden so as to be as hard to find as possible. > john Darren
