I was doing some list maintenance and just realised a potential problem
with version 2.0. According to something that was posted here a while
back (by Jason I think), the lists will be kept in binary format for
faster processing speed. The problem with this is that I find myself
using grep and similar tools a lot to track down bad addresses, and if I
lose that capability it may cost me a lot more time than the use of
binary files will save me.
So two questions (aside from the obvious one of whether I got the story
straight):
(1) Will the ASCII format still be supported? I think that this was
mentioned, but I didn't make a careful note when the message passed by.
(2) Will something equivalent to grep work on the binary files?
Bill
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Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Section, Bedford Institute of Oceanography,
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2, Tel. (902)426-1577
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