Subject: Re: misc/1094: Sup when files are store in machine byte order
To: None <christos@deshaw.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/02/1995 10:00:25
If we're going to make the `when' file format incompatible, we should
change it to an ASCII representation of the number.

I still haven't figured out why the `when' file (which is trivial and
only accessed twice during a SUP session) is in a binary format, but
the scan list (which is fairly large and has to be parsed) uses an
ASCII format for times.  It's rather silly.