On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:00:02 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> On 09/10/2011 10:00 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> The point was that Andy said that binary blob data could be stored in
>> the registry and not a Linux configuration file.  Point is, it could be
>> stored in a Linux data file, but since it's common to change
>> configuration items with an editor in Linux, it's not common to use a
>> binary format (though the timezone file is an exception to that IIRC).
> 
> The point being, if you want to store some binary data in the middle of
> a textual configuration file, you have to base64 encode it or something
> (which is less efficient). If you want to stick some binary data in the
> registry, you can just store it as binary.

No, you don't have to encode it as base64.  It's perfectly legal to 
create a file with text components and binary components.  Because it's 
just a file.

Jim

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