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From: Lee Dickey
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1988 04:31

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I have noticed a few programs lately that have made use of ".rsc"
files.  These programs sometimes have with them a second program which
is used to  "CONFIGURE"  the resource file.

Sometimes these resource files use a clever encoding scheme that
compresses an already small quantity of information into as few bits as
possible.  Maybe even getting everything into a small number of bytes.

In some instances, this strikes me as ludicrous, since it seems that
every file takes a minimum of 1K anyway.  Why not store the desired
information in "cleartext", perhaps even with a few keywords, and allow
the user use an editor to create and/or modify the input data file?

-- 
    L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
	ljdickey@WATDCS.UWaterloo.ca	ljdickey@water.BITNET
	ljdickey@water.UUCP		..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey
	ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu

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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
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Subject: resource files
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Date: 2 Jun 88 04:31:47 GMT
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