On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
I'd strongly recommend doing exactly that. Keep
the data seperate from
the metadata describing it. Mixing the two really detracts from the
human readability aspect for starters - browsing a file with nicely
formatted structured data peppered with streams of encoded media data
(whether hex pairs, base64 or whatever) would give me a headache :-)
Are you really going to be spending much time rummaging through image
files, as a hobby or something?
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