On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:00:25 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> 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.
> 
> It's perfectly *legal*, but nobody does it because then you wouldn't be
> able to just throw the file through grep or something and expect it to
> work.

I've seen it done.

And in fact, a binary file is perfectly acceptable for grep to parse.  
I've used that often enough myself.

Jim

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