Re: Preferences file in Tiger
Re: Preferences file in Tiger
- Subject: Re: Preferences file in Tiger
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 16:30:56 +0100
On 5/3/05, Shawn Erickson <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On May 3, 2005, at 7:19 AM, Todd Blanchard wrote:
>
> > How is "binary" plist different from "classic" plist (which I
> > prefer and seemed about as small as you could make it, yet remained
> > vi friendly)?
>
> ...one is in binary and the other is in UTF-8 XML. They are vi
> friendly with a simple use of a conversion tool, heck on a Mac OS X
> you could use a little piping magic and be done with it.
I think Todd is referring to the pre-XML plist format (used on
NeXTStep and still in some places). A problem I had with it was that
if you wrote out a number, it would come back in as a string.
Seems to be a bit of an odd choice to me, but I guess it's because you
shouldn't be modifying preferences plists by hand anyway.
-- Finlay
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