POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : The other OS : Re: The other OS Server Time
29 Jul 2024 22:22:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The other OS  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 9 Aug 2011 14:47:23
Message: <4e4180bb@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:45:27 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> On 09/08/2011 05:54 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:42:29 -0400, Warp wrote:
>>
>>> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>>>> Binary files and text files aren't the same.
>>>
>>>    Clearly you aren't enough of a hacker.
>>
>> Indeed, it's just data, after all.
> 
> You know what? I also wouldn't use a text editor to edit a sound file.
> And I *definitely* wouldn't use a sound editor to edit a text file.

Sure, I wouldn't either, but that doesn't mean binary and text files 
aren't the same - they are, they're data.  That doesn't mean you don't 
use specialized tools to edit them.

Jim


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