My ideas:

1. Binaries isn't ALWAYS an executable program.  It can be any file that
isn't text.  That lovely swap file you have in your bloated Windows
directory (if you use Windows ;) is a binary.  Why?  Because it contains
non-text information.

If you download files off an FTP site using a low-level FTP browser (such as
the Windows FTP utility or a Unix terminal), you'll find two modes.  ASCII
for text files, and binary for just about everything else.  There's no real
specific definition of the word "binary".

2. The way I see it, there's p.t.s-f and p.b.s-f.  The 's' stands for
"scene".  Most people think of a scene as a complete image, not just a
utility.  And an INC file is hardly a scene.  It COULD realistically be
called a utility because it does things for people (which utilities
generally do)

There's my two cents :)

-Ian

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