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Old 27th April 2004, 05:13 AM   #61 (permalink)
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As a cautionary tale, let me warn everyone away from organizing apps that use proprietary formats.

I've used a couple and I've got burned twice. Propietary binary formats are bad for this kind of work. If something goes wrong and your program is hosed, all your data is lost.

Let me say that again:

ALL YOUR DATA IS LOST

If you haven't experienced this, you don't know what pain is. I will never, never use a program that stores information in any sort of binary format ever again.

Plain text is best -- you can have HTML or XML or whatever. RTF is not bad. Anything more complicated than that and forget about it.

Don't find out the hard way. Your campaign data is precious and you need constant access to it. Consider what might happen if that neat little program suddenly went kablooie and the company that made it went bankrupt three weeks ago. Tears, tears of hot blood I tell you.

Tears of hot blood.

Okay, I'm still bitter.
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