JB>>> What do you mean by DOS-think?

 MK>> Things like unneeded extra linefeeds, wasteful storage
 MK>> such as 16-bit integers when an 8-bit character would
 MK>> have been fine, etc.  A lack of creativity as well but
 MK>> that is a different can of worms.

 JB> I would say that having a binary format at all is DOS-think.
 JB> :-)

hehehe, if that was the case, then TCP/IP and such wouldn't contain any
binary data ;) ;)

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