Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!ljdickey From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: resource files Message-ID: <1609@water.waterloo.edu> Date: 2 Jun 88 04:31:47 GMT Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 18 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