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

[Pete Ryland]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:04:54AM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> Matthew King writes:
> > > Sadly, they've standardised on XML to ensure maximal bloat, but at
> >
> > *cough*gzip -c*cough*
> >
> > Or to put it in more detail, XML is a text format and as such is
> > easily and well compressed.
> 
> I've long argued that this is a bad file format, and not in the Unix
> tradition. Compare:
> 
> 	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. :-)

Pete

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