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Why are Plists stored as binary?(rawsyntax.com)

3 points by binarysoul 11 years ago | 2 comments

mpweiher 11 years ago |

The binary format is faster and more compact.

Use `plutil` to convert to and from ASCII.

binarysoul 11 years ago | |

Thanks for the tip. I didn't know about that utility