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On 24 Nov 2013, at 15:39, Steve Newcomb <srn@coolheads.com> wrote: > As a practical matter, is there *any* difference between text and binary > data *other* than the necessity of worrying about record-end handling in > the former, but not in the latter? > Reminds me of the problems we used to have in ICL because our mainframe binary files (in particular those used to hold object code) had significant record boundaries: they weren't just a sequence of bytes, but a sequence of records each holding a sequence of bytes. It became very difficult to transfer these to and from other (Unix and Windows based) systems that didn't recognise such a concept. Michael Kay Saxonica
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