Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 11:06:55 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Policy on printf format specifiers? Message-ID: <199509211806.LAA09066@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199509210338.WAA13478@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Sep 20, 95 10:38:36 pm
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> >> What information loss is that? > > >How many records are in the file from stat information. > > And how is this information *lost*? Your code works just fine regardless > of the character set used. I replied to this under seperate cover, but since you hit the list, I'll hit the list too: Records must do one of three things with Runic encoding schemes: 1) Not contain a fixed amount of data for a fixed length field. 2) Be larger than they have to be to take runic expansion into account for fixed length fields, with a high average wastage. 3) Be variable length, giving up the relationship between file size and record count. 1 and 2 are unacceptable. 3 is unacceptable. Runic encoding is unacceptable (and this is just one reason among many). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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