Re: Babyl

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From: kyle
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 01:19

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Jamie Zawinski writes:
 > The only objections I've ever heard against BABYL are "it's not pretty" and
 > "you can't use `cat'".  ("RMAIL is broken" is a seperate issue entirely.)
 > I don't think either of these have anything to do with the quality of the
 > file format as it applies to *not gratuitously throwing away information*.

Quite right, which is why I prefer MH format.  The messages are
kept separate and unmolested, with messages pointers, etc. stored
elsewhere.  I'm tempted to make VM work this way, as this would
simplify VM's internals significantly.  Maybe for version 6.

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