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mlRe: Tiger plists
FROM : Nicholas Riley
DATE : Fri Apr 29 23:22:21 2005

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:40:33PM -0700, SD wrote:
> Did the plist format change for Tiger?
>
> I'm looking at the plists for some of my products on Tiger and they
> are no longer in a nice XML format.  They look like garbage now (They
> still work though).
>
> Can anyone confirm this change for me?  Is it documented by Apple?


Yes, plists are written in binary format by default on Tiger.  It's
documented in the release notes.  Binary format plists are readable
back to Panther but not earlier.  You can use pl or plutil to
display/convert them.

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Nicholas Riley <<email_removed>> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>

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