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At 04:53 PM 3/6/2001, Terry Lambert wrote:

>I think people are using "binary file recovery is hard" as code
>for "I didn't do backups, and humans can at least salvage some
>data from a corrupt text file, if it's not too corrupt".

Or, maybe, for "I'm too lazy to write a good, robust editor
that can handle the file format, won't go crazy if there's
corruption, and will let a human fix corrupted files."

--Brett


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