Re: PCs & sit format

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <33C95D3C.7170@techie.com>,
Luis V. Espinoza <laffin@techie.com> wrote:
>greatly appreciated (source code would be wonderful)

   We've been thru this before. Inane proprietary data formats are
fine for a standalone app. However, if you're trying to transmit data
around, requiring that the data 'can opener' be manufactured by Ye
Olde Krustie Programming Co. and nobody else is a serious detriment to
exchanging the data. There's no security benefit or anything else in a
proprietary format, just stupidity.

   Public data exchange formats should be well-documented, with either
detailed filetype notes, or better yet, source code for reading that.
With that, anyone can port a reader to a system without too much fuss.
.SIT fails on pretty much all counts for being an open format.

Nathan Mates

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