[Gllug] Best format, for everyone, for saving documents.

[Tethys]

Pete Ryland writes:

>> 	isengard:~% file foo.png foo.gnumeric
>> 	foo.png:      PNG image data, 400 x 712, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced
>> 	foo.gnumeric: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970, os: Unix
>
>Try "file -z" then. :-)

That's not much better:

	foo.gnumeric: XML document text (gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970, os: Unix)

So it's a compressed XML file. Great. Is that from OpenOffice, Gnumeric,
something entirely different? You lose the ability to extract metadata
about the document in any sensible fashion. Far better to have a well
thought out chunked file format.

Tet

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