[cad-linux] binary data

Bruno Postle said:     (by the date of Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:50:57 +0100)

> On Tue 16-Sep-2003 at 12:01:06AM +0200, Janek Kozicki wrote:
> > 
> > I think that it is a good idea *not to allow binary files inside
> > data tree*,
> 
> One of the advantages of splitting a 'drawing' into many files is
> that it becomes easy to embed some kinds of binary data; the obvious
> example is bitmap-images - These can simply exist as normal jpg and
> png files.

you are right. I didn't thought abut raster images...

Good enough images don't need to be grepped. And CVS handles binary data
quite well :)


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# Janek Kozicki

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