Better indexing on bitsavers

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Randy McLaughlin wrote:

> Al can decide if it should be text only, html, excel, etc.  If there is a
> vote I vote text only either comma delimited (with quotes when needed) or
> fixed width fields that would be easier to read.

This is more of just a general observation applicable to everything:
commas are convenient and intuitive but a much better delimiting character
for anything you do is the vertical line | because it rarely if ever shows
up in text either machine generated or hand-written and will therefore not
cause interference in field data containing commas when parsing.

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